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Welcome to Hyde Park ...

Hyde Park is located in Cook County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hyde Park, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1860.

Hyde Park is 590 feet [180 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Hyde Park lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Hyde Park (for example, toward New Carlisle (IN)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Communities Also Named Hyde Park ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 40 communities that are also named Hyde Park - they are located in Alabama (2), Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida (4), Georgia (3), Indiana, Louisiana, Manitoba, Maryland (3), Massachusetts (2), Michigan, Missouri, New York (3), North Dakota, Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania (3), South Carolina (2), Utah, Vermont and Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hyde Park.

Communities near Hyde Park ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hyde Park.

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 Hyde Park. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Hyde Park.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Hyde Park. 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 Hyde Park.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Hyde Park. See our Newspapers Page for Hyde Park.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Hyde Park ...

Looking for more information about Hyde Park? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

In addition to the Tourism page for Hyde Park, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Hyde Park.

Adding Hyde Park to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Hyde Park 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 for Hyde Park was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Hyde Park post office opened in 1860.

We also found Hyde Park in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hyde Park.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Cook, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Hyde Park - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/