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Welcome to Beaver ...

So far, we found very little information about Beaver. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Beaver to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Beaver, please Contact Us.


Beaver would have been located within present day Winona County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Beaver, you might consider that their post office opened in 1857.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Beaver is 700 feet [213 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Beaver was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Beaver was located: 507 & 924<4>

Communities Also Named Beaver ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 44 communities that are also named Beaver - they are located in Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas (6), Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Manitoba, Massachusetts, Michigan (4), Missouri (2), Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Newfoundland and Labrador, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania (4), South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (2), Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia (2), Wisconsin and Wyoming.

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

Communities near Beaver ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Beaver to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Beaver 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 Beaver was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Beaver post office opened in 1857. The Beaver post office closed in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Beaver.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Beaver, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Minnesota's counties, including Winona, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Beaver - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 Beaver area will be assigned with one of these codes: 507 or 924. As a result, placing a call in the Beaver area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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/