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Welcome to Pilot Center ...So far, we found very little information about Pilot Center. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Pilot Center to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pilot Center, please Contact Us. Pilot Center would have been located within present day Kankakee County<2>. The location of Pilot Center has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Pilot Center, you might consider that their post office opened in 1870. A typical abbreviation for Pilot Center: Pilot Ctr. (or less commonly used: Pilot Cen., Pilot Cent. or Pilot Cntr.) While the community is gone, the present day location for Pilot Center is 660 feet [201 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Pilot Center was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Pilot Center, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Pilot Center would have been located in the (815) and (779)<5> area codes. Websites for Pilot Center ...Junior League: www.jlkankakee.org/ Communities near Pilot Center ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Pilot Center.
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 Pilot Center. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Pilot Center. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Pilot Center. 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 Pilot Center. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Pilot Center. See our Newspapers Page for Pilot Center. Adding Pilot Center to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Pilot Center 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 Pilot Center was on a map (with an unknown title) dated 1870. For more details, see References and Mentions for Pilot Center. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Kankakee County: www.co.kankakee.il.us/ The official website for State of Illinois: https://illinois.gov Footnotes ...
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