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Welcome to Hortonville ...

Hortonville is located in Bristol County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hortonville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1884.

Hortonville is 60 feet [18 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Hortonville: 508 & 774<3>

Communities Also Named Hortonville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 7 communities that are also named Hortonville - they are located in Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, New York, Nova Scotia, Vermont and Wisconsin.

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

Communities near Hortonville ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Hortonville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Hortonville post office opened in 1884.

We also found Hortonville in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hortonville.

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 Hortonville - 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 Hortonville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 508 or 774. As a result, placing a call in the Hortonville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/