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Welcome to Crider ...

Crider is located in Caldwell County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Crider, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888.

Crider is 460 feet [140 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Crider: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Crider ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Crider - they are located in Missouri and Tennessee.

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

Communities near Crider ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Crider ...

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

Adding Crider to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Crider post office opened in 1888. The Crider post office closed in 1954.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Crider.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Caldwell, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Crider - 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 270 code has been Overlayed with the 364 area code. New phone numbers in the Crider area will be assigned with one of these codes: 270 or 364. As a result, placing a call in the Crider 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/