Welcome to Platteville ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Platteville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1870.

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

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

Communities Also Named Platteville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Platteville - they are located in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Platteville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Platteville 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 Platteville was in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Platteville.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Saunders County: www.co.saunders.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 Platteville, 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 Saunders, 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 Platteville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Platteville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).