Welcome to Highland Town ...
So far, we found very little information about Highland Town. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Highland Town to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Highland Town, please Contact Us.
Highland Town would have been located within present day Grundy County<2>.
The pronunciation of Highland Town: HEYE-luhnd<3>
While we don't have a date for the founding of Highland Town, you might consider that their post office opened in 1866.
While the community is gone, the present day location for Highland Town is 620 feet [189 m] above sea level.<4>.
Time Zone: The area where Highland Town was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
The Area Codes where Highland Town was located: 815 & 779<5>
Websites for Highland Town ...
Chamber of Commerce: www.grundychamber.com/
Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Highland Town, the following might be of interest:
Communities near Highland Town ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Highland Town.
- Morris
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Channahon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Streator
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Braidwood
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Wilmington
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Wilmington is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,597 people
- Coal City
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Marseilles
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Dwight
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Diamond
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Seneca
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Seneca is located in La Salle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,217 people
- Seneca has also been known as:
- Crotty
- Seneca village
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Seneca <6>
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.
We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Highland Town. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Highland Town.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Highland Town. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Highland Town.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Highland Town. See our Newspapers Page for Highland Town.
Adding Highland Town to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Highland Town in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.
From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Highland Town was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>
From that list, the Highland Town post office opened in 1866. The Highland Town post office closed in 1876.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Highland Town.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Highland Town, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Grundy, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | The pronunciation we've provided is our attempt to give a phonetic pronunciation for Highland Town. While it might not be exactly right, hopefully it will be close. If we have it wrong or there's a better way to pronounce the name, please contact us through our Feedback Page. |
| <4> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Highland Town - it will be higher in some places and lower in others. |
| <5> | When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 815 code has been Overlayed with the 779 area code. New phone numbers in the Highland Town area will be assigned with one of these codes: 815 or 779. As a result, placing a call in the Highland Town area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). |
| <6> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <7> | A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |