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Welcome to Cottage Home ...

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

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

Cottage Home would have been located within present day Lincoln County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cottage Home, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1841.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Cottage Home is 650 feet [198 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Cottage Home was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Cottage Home was located: 704 & 980<4>

Communities Also Named Cottage Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Cottage Home - they are located in Illinois and Tennessee.

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

Communities near Cottage Home ...

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

  • Charlotte
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Gastonia
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Huntersville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntersville have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntersville
    • Huntersville is located in Mecklenburg County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 59,095 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huntersville <5>
  • Mooresville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Cornelius
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cornelius have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornelius
    • Cornelius is located in Mecklenburg County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 30,804 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cornelius <5>
  • Mount Holly
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Holly have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Holly
    • Mount Holly is located in Gaston County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 16,415 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mount Holly <5>
  • Davidson
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Davidson have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davidson
    • Davidson is located in Mecklenburg County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,203 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Davidson <5>
  • Belmont
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Lincolnton
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Cherryville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)

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

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

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

Adding Cottage Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cottage Home in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Cottage Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

X2X - From that list, the Cottage Home post office opened in 1841.

We also found Cottage Home in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cottage Home.

The official website for Lincoln County: www.co.lincoln.nc.us/

The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/

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 Cottage Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Lincoln, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cottage Home - 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 704 code has been Overlayed with the 980 area code. New phone numbers in the Cottage Home area will be assigned with one of these codes: 704 or 980. As a result, placing a call in the Cottage Home 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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