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

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


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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Plum Valley, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1875.

A typical abbreviation for Plum Valley: Plum Vly. (or less commonly used: Plum Vally. or Plum Vlly.)

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

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

Communities Also Named Plum Valley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Plum Valley - they are located in California and Missouri.

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

Adding Plum Valley to Our Gazetteer ...

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

X2X - From that list, the Plum Valley post office opened in 1875.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Plum Valley.

The official website for Knox County: www.co.knox.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 Plum Valley, 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 Knox, 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 Plum Valley area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Plum Valley 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/









 

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