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Welcome to Pleasant Walk ...

Pleasant Walk is located in Frederick County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pleasant Walk, you might consider that their post office opened in 1889.

Pleasant Walk is 1,030 feet [314 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Pleasant Walk: 301, 227 & 240<3>

Websites for Pleasant Walk ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.frederickchamber.org/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Pleasant Walk, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Pleasant Walk ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Pleasant Walk ...

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

Adding Pleasant Walk to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Pleasant Walk post office opened in 1889. The Pleasant Walk post office closed in 1901.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pleasant Walk.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Maryland's counties, including Frederick, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Pleasant Walk - 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 Pleasant Walk area will be assigned with one of these codes: 301, 227 or 240. As a result, placing a call in the Pleasant Walk 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/