Welcome to Contact ...So far, we found very little information about Contact. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Contact to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Contact, please Contact Us. Contact would have been located within present day Elko County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Contact, you might consider that their post office opened in 1897. While the community is gone, the present day location for Contact is 5,350 feet [1,631 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of Contact is 1 mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Contact was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel east from Contact, you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT). The Area Code where Contact was located: 775 Communities Also Named Contact ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Contact - it's located in Montana. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Contact. Communities near Contact ...We have created a list of 9 communities that are near Contact.
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 Contact. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Contact. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Contact. 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 Contact. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Contact. See our Newspapers Page for Contact. Adding Contact to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Contact 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 Contact was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Contact. Footnotes ...
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