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Welcome to Spankey ...

Spankey is located in Jersey County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Spankey, you might consider that their post office opened in 1891.

Spankey is 430 feet [131 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Spankey: 618 & 730<3>

Communities near Spankey ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Spankey ...

Looking for more information about Spankey? 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 Spankey, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Spankey.

Adding Spankey to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Spankey post office opened in 1891. The Spankey post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Spankey.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Illinois' counties, including Jersey, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Spankey - 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 618 code has been Overlayed with the 730 area code. New phone numbers in the Spankey area will be assigned with one of these codes: 618 or 730. As a result, placing a call in the Spankey 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/