Welcome to Portland Mills ...Portland Mills is primarily located in Putnam County<1>. A portion of Portland Mills extends into Parke County. While we don't have a date for the founding of Portland Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1846. A typical abbreviation for Portland Mills: Portland Mls. (or less commonly used: Portland Mlls.) Portland Mills is 730 feet [223 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Portland Mills lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from Portland Mills (for example, toward Ridge Farm (IL)), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). Communities Also Named Portland Mills ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Portland Mills - it's located in Pennsylvania. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Portland Mills. Communities near Portland Mills ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Portland Mills.
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 Portland Mills. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Portland Mills. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Portland Mills. 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 Portland Mills. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Portland Mills. See our Newspapers Page for Portland Mills. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Portland Mills ...Looking for more information about Portland Mills? 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 Portland Mills, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Portland Mills. Adding Portland Mills to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Portland Mills 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 Portland Mills was in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846). For more details, see References and Mentions for Portland Mills. Footnotes ...
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