Welcome to Thornton ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Thornton, you might consider that their post office opened in 1874.

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

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

Communities Also Named Thornton ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 28 communities that are also named Thornton - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho (2), Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

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

Adding Thornton to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Thornton post office opened in 1874.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Thornton.

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 Thornton, 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 Polk, 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 Thornton area will be assigned with one of these codes: 402 or 531. As a result, placing a call in the Thornton 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/