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Welcome to Letts Corner ...

Letts Corner is located in Decatur County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Letts Corner, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1871.

A typical abbreviation for Letts Corner: Letts Cor. (or less commonly used: Letts Crn.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Letts Corner for more information about variations on the name of Letts Corner.

Letts Corner is 890 feet [271 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Letts Corner lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Letts Corner: 812 & 930<3>

Communities near Letts Corner ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Letts Corner ...

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

Adding Letts Corner to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Letts Corner 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 for Letts Corner was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Letts Corner post office opened in 1871.

We also found Letts Corner in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Letts Corner.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Indiana's counties, including Decatur, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Letts Corner - 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 812 code has been Overlayed with the 930 area code. New phone numbers in the Letts Corner area will be assigned with one of these codes: 812 or 930. As a result, placing a call in the Letts Corner 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/