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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>.

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.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Pilot Center for more information about variations on the name of Pilot Center.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Pilot Center is 660 feet [201 m] above sea level.<3>.

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 leave Pilot Center and travel east, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

The Area Codes where Pilot Center was located: 815 & 779<4>

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.

  • Kankakee
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Bourbonnais
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Bradley
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Manteno
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Braidwood
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Wilmington
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Wilmington is located in Will County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmington
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,597 people
  • Coal City
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Dwight
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • 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 <5>
  • Diamond
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Limestone
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Limestone is located in Kankakee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,498 people

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 (so far) for Pilot Center was on a map (with an unknown title) dated 1870.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pilot Center.

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 Pilot Center, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Kankakee, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Pilot Center - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 Pilot Center area will be assigned with one of these codes: 815 or 779. As a result, placing a call in the Pilot Center area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.