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Welcome to Blair ...So far, we found very little information about Blair. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Blair to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Blair, please Contact Us. Blair would have been located within present day Esmeralda County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Blair, you might consider that their post office opened in 1906. The origin (or the toponymy) of Blair: Named after John L. Blair; a capitalist who funded developement of the Pittsburg Silver Peak Gold Mining Company. While the community is gone, the present day location for Blair is 4,610 feet [1,405 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of Blair is about ¾ mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Blair was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time If Blair still existed, it would have been in the (775) area code. Communities Also Named Blair ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 23 communities that are also named Blair - they are located in Illinois (2), Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana (2), Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Blair. Communities near Blair ...We have created a list of 7 communities that are near Blair.
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 Blair. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Blair. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Blair. 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 Blair. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Blair. See our Newspapers Page for Blair. Adding Blair to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Blair 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 Blair was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Blair. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Nevada: nv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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