Welcome to Dike ...

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

We've added Dike to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Dike - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Dike, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Dike , we believe that it would have been located within present day Hitchcock County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dike, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888.

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

The Area Code where Dike was located: 308

Communities Also Named Dike ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Dike - they are located in Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon and Texas.

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

Adding Dike to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Dike was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Dike post office opened in 1888.

We also found Dike on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Nebraska (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dike.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Hitchcock County: www.co.hitchcock.ne.us/

The official website for State of Nebraska: https://www.nebraska.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 Dike, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Hitchcock, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/