Welcome to Bear Island ...Bear Island is located in Belknap County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Bear Island, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892. A typical abbreviation for Bear Island: Bear Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.) Bear Island is 540 feet [165 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Bear Island lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Bear Island: 603 Communities Also Named Bear Island ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Bear Island - they are located in New Brunswick and Ontario. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bear Island. Communities near Bear Island ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Bear 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 Bear Island. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Bear Island. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Bear 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 Bear Island. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Bear Island. See our Newspapers Page for Bear Island. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Bear Island ...Looking for more information about Bear 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 Bear Island, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Bear Island. Adding Bear Island to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Bear 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 (so far) for Bear Island was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Bear Island. Footnotes ...
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