Welcome to Grafton ...So far, we found very little information about Grafton. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Grafton to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Grafton, please Contact Us. Grafton would have been located within present day Sierra County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Grafton, you might consider that their post office opened in 1881. While the community is gone, the present day location for Grafton is 6,810 feet [2,076 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of Grafton is about 1¼ mile [or ~2 km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Grafton was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Code where Grafton was located: 575 Communities Also Named Grafton ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 31 communities that are also named Grafton - they are located in Alabama, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (2), Utah, Vermont, Virginia (2), West Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Grafton. Communities near Grafton ...We have created a list of 3 communities that are near Grafton.
To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Grafton. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Grafton. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Grafton. 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 Grafton. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Grafton. See our Newspapers Page for Grafton. Adding Grafton to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Grafton 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 Grafton was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Grafton. Footnotes ...
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