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Welcome to Wartrace ...

Wartrace is located in Johnson County<1>.

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

Wartrace is 490 feet [149 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Wartrace: 618 & 730<3>

Communities Also Named Wartrace ...

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

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

Communities near Wartrace ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Wartrace ...

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

Adding Wartrace to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Wartrace post office opened in 1891. The Wartrace post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Wartrace.

Footnotes ...

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