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Welcome to Easton Center ...

Easton Center is located in Bristol County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Easton Center, you might consider that their post office opened in 1893.

A typical abbreviation for Easton Center: Easton Ctr. (or less commonly used: Easton Cen., Easton Cent. or Easton Cntr.)

Easton Center is 110 feet [34 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Easton Center lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Easton Center: 508 & 774<3>

Communities Also Named Easton Center ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Easton Center - they are located in Connecticut and Maine.

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

Communities near Easton Center ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Easton Center to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Easton Center 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 Easton Center was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Easton Center post office opened in 1893. The Easton Center post office closed in 1910.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Easton Center.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Massachusetts' counties, including Bristol, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Easton Center - 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 508 code has been Overlayed with the 774 area code. New phone numbers in the Easton Center area will be assigned with one of these codes: 508 or 774. As a result, placing a call in the Easton Center area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>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/