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Welcome to Elkhart ...So far, we found very little information about Elkhart. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Elkhart to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Elkhart - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Elkhart, please Contact Us. While we don't have the exact location of Elkhart , we believe that it would have been located within present day Bates County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Elkhart, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was in a book dated 1895. When the people of Elkhart referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Elkhartan<3> Time Zone: The area where Elkhart was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Communities Also Named Elkhart ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 7 communities that are also named Elkhart - they are located in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Texas and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Elkhart. Adding Elkhart to Our Gazetteer ...The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Elkhart was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). We also found Elkhart on a map (with an unknown title) dated 1904. For more details, see References and Mentions for Elkhart. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Missouri: https://www.mo.gov/ Footnotes ...
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