Welcome to Falmouth Heights ...
Falmouth Heights is located in Barnstable County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Falmouth Heights, you might consider that their post office opened in 1890.
A typical abbreviation for Falmouth Heights: Falmouth Hts. (in Canada, 'Hgts.' is the more common abbreviation.)
Falmouth Heights is near sea level<2>.
Time Zone: Falmouth Heights lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Falmouth Heights: 508 & 774<3>
Communities Also Named Falmouth Heights ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Falmouth Heights - it's located in Virginia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Falmouth Heights.
Communities near Falmouth Heights ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Falmouth Heights.
- New Bedford
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- New Bedford is located in Bristol County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Bedford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 95,517 people
- Barnstable
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Barnstable is located in Barnstable County
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- Population from the 2010 Census: 45,193 people
- Barnstable has also been known as:
- Barnstable Village
- Barnstable Town
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Barnstable Town is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnstable Town
- Population from the 2020 Census: 44,535 people
- Wareham
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Wareham is located in Plymouth County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 22,778 people
- Sandwich
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Sandwich is located in Barnstable County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 20,151 people
- Bourne
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Bourne is located in Barnstable County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 19,743 people
- Fairhaven
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Fairhaven is located in Bristol County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,103 people
- Mashpee
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Mashpee is located in Barnstable County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,266 people
- Acushnet
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Acushnet is located in Bristol County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,673 people
- Mattapoisett
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Mattapoisett is located in Plymouth County
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- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,427 people
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 Falmouth Heights. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Falmouth Heights.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Falmouth Heights. 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 Falmouth Heights.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Falmouth Heights. See our Newspapers Page for Falmouth Heights.
Adding Falmouth Heights to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Falmouth Heights 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 Falmouth Heights was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Falmouth Heights post office opened in 1890. The Falmouth Heights post office closed in 1967.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Falmouth Heights.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Massachusetts' counties, including Barnstable, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <2> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Falmouth Heights - 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 Falmouth Heights area will be assigned with one of these codes: 508 or 774. As a result, placing a call in the Falmouth Heights 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/ |