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Welcome to Langham ...

Langham is located in Grundy County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Langham, you might consider that their post office opened in 1895.

Langham is 610 feet [186 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Langham: 815 & 779<3>

Communities Also Named Langham ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Langham - it's located in Saskatchewan.

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

Websites for Langham ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.grundychamber.com/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Langham, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Langham ...

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

  • Ottawa
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Ottawa is located in La Salle County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,097 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ottawa <4>
  • Morris
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Channahon
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Streator
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Minooka
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Braidwood
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Coal City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Marseilles
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Dwight
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Dwight is located in Livingston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dwight
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,984 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dwight <4>
  • Sheridan
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Langham ...

Looking for more information about Langham? 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.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Langham, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Langham.

Adding Langham to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Langham in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Langham was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Langham post office opened in 1895. The Langham post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Langham.

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Langham - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 Langham area will be assigned with one of these codes: 815 or 779. As a result, placing a call in the Langham area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/