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Welcome to Summer Grove ...

Summer Grove is located in Caddo Parish<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Summer Grove, you might consider that their post office opened in 1840.

A typical abbreviation for Summer Grove: Summer Grv.

Summer Grove is 210 feet [64 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Summer Grove: 318 & 457<3>

Communities near Summer Grove ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Summer Grove ...

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

Adding Summer Grove to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Summer Grove post office opened in 1840. The Summer Grove post office closed in 1860.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Summer Grove.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Louisiana's parishes, including Caddo, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Summer Grove - 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 318 code has been Overlayed with the 457 area code. New phone numbers in the Summer Grove area will be assigned with one of these codes: 318 or 457. As a result, placing a call in the Summer Grove 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/