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Welcome to Litchfield ...So far, we found very little information about Litchfield. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Litchfield to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Litchfield, please Contact Us. Litchfield would have been located within present day Crawford County<2>. The location of Litchfield has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Litchfield, you might consider that their post office opened in 1881. While the community is gone, the present day location for Litchfield is 910 feet [277 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Litchfield was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time If Litchfield still existed, it would have been in the (620) area code. Communities Also Named Litchfield ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 16 communities that are also named Litchfield - they are located in Arizona, California, Illinois (2), Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Quebec and Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Litchfield. Communities near Litchfield ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Litchfield.
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 Litchfield. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Litchfield. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Litchfield. 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 Litchfield. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Litchfield. See our Newspapers Page for Litchfield. Adding Litchfield to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Litchfield 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 Litchfield was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Litchfield on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Kansas (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Litchfield. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Crawford County: www.crawfordcountykansas.org/ The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/ Footnotes ...
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