Welcome to Hatchville ...
Hatchville is located in Barnstable County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Hatchville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858.
Hatchville is 90 feet [27 m] above sea level.<2>.
Time Zone: Hatchville lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Codes for Hatchville: 508 & 774<3>
Communities Also Named Hatchville ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Hatchville - it's located in Wisconsin.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Hatchville.
Communities near Hatchville ...
We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hatchville.
- New Bedford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Barnstable
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Barnstable Town
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Barnstable Town is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnstable Town
- Population from the 2020 Census: 44,535 people
- Falmouth
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Yarmouth
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Wareham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wareham is located in Plymouth County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wareham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 22,778 people
- Sandwich
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Bourne
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Bourne is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bourne
- Population from the 2020 Census: 19,743 people
- Fairhaven
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Fairhaven is located in Bristol County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhaven
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,103 people
- Mashpee
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Mashpee is located in Barnstable County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mashpee
- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,266 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 Hatchville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Hatchville.
Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Hatchville. 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 Hatchville.
We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Hatchville. See our Newspapers Page for Hatchville.
Adding Hatchville to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Hatchville 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 Hatchville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>
From that list, the Hatchville post office opened in 1858. The Hatchville post office closed in 1972.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Hatchville.
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 Hatchville - 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 Hatchville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 508 or 774. As a result, placing a call in the Hatchville 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/ |