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Welcome to Beauford ...

Beauford is located in Blue Earth County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Beauford, you might consider that their post office opened in 1867.

Beauford is 1,010 feet [308 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Beauford lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Beauford: 507 & 924<3>

Communities Also Named Beauford ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Beauford - it's located in Virginia.

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

Communities near Beauford ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Beauford ...

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

Adding Beauford to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Beauford post office opened in 1867. The Beauford post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Beauford.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Minnesota's counties, including Blue Earth, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Beauford - 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 507 code has been Overlayed with the 924 area code. New phone numbers in the Beauford area will be assigned with one of these codes: 507 or 924. As a result, placing a call in the Beauford 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/