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Welcome to Green Spring Furnace ...

Green Spring Furnace is located in Washington County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Green Spring Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

A typical abbreviation for Green Spring Furnace: Green Spg. Furnace (or less commonly used: Green Spng. Furnace or Green Sprng. Furnace)

Green Spring Furnace is 440 feet [134 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Green Spring Furnace: 301, 227 & 240<3>

Communities near Green Spring Furnace ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Green Spring Furnace.

  • Hagerstown
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Hagerstown is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hagerstown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 39,918 people
    • Former name for Hagerstown:
    • Hager's Town
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hagerstown <4>
  • Martinsburg
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Greencastle
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Boonsboro
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Williamsport
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Shepherdstown
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Mercersburg
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Hancock
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Keedysville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Funkstown
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Green Spring Furnace ...

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

Adding Green Spring Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Green Spring Furnace post office opened in 1851. The Green Spring Furnace post office closed in 1903.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Green Spring Furnace.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Maryland's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Green Spring Furnace - 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 301 code has been Overlayed with one of the following codes: 227 or 240. New phone numbers in the Green Spring Furnace area will be assigned with one of these codes: 301, 227 or 240. As a result, placing a call in the Green Spring Furnace 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/