Welcome to Willow Island ...Willow Island is located in Dawson County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Willow Island, you might consider that their post office opened in 1874. A typical abbreviation for Willow Island: Willow Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.) Willow Island is 2,520 feet [768 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Willow Island is about ½ mile above sea level. Time Zone: Willow Island lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Willow Island: 308 Communities Also Named Willow Island ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Willow Island - it's located in West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Willow Island. Communities near Willow Island ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Willow Island.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Willow Island. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Willow Island. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Willow Island. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Willow Island. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Willow Island. See our Newspapers Page for Willow Island. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Willow Island ...Looking for more information about Willow Island? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions. While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Willow Island, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Willow Island. Adding Willow Island to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Willow Island in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Willow Island was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> We also found Willow Island on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Nebraska (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Willow Island. Footnotes ...
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