Welcome to Looking Glass ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Looking Glass, you might consider that their post office opened in 1873.

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

The Area Codes where Looking Glass was located: 402 & 531<3>

Communities Also Named Looking Glass ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Looking Glass - it's located in Oregon.

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

Adding Looking Glass to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Looking Glass was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Looking Glass post office opened in 1873.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Looking Glass.

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 Looking Glass, 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 Platte, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<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 402 code has been Overlayed with the 531 area code. New phone numbers in the Looking Glass area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Looking Glass area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/