Welcome to Tar Hill ...Tar Hill is located in Grayson County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Tar Hill, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892. Tar Hill is 710 feet [216 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Tar Hill lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Tar Hill (for example, toward Sonora), you will soon leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT). Area Codes for Tar Hill: 270 & 364<3> Communities near Tar Hill ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Tar Hill.
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 Tar Hill. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Tar Hill. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Tar Hill. 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 Tar Hill. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Tar Hill. See our Newspapers Page for Tar Hill. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Tar Hill ...Looking for more information about Tar Hill? 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 Tar Hill, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Tar Hill. Adding Tar Hill to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Tar Hill 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 Tar Hill was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Tar Hill. Footnotes ...
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