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Welcome to Dixie Valley ...

Dixie Valley is located in Churchill County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dixie Valley, you might consider that their post office opened in 1918.

A typical abbreviation for Dixie Valley: Dixie Vly. (or less commonly used: Dixie Vally. or Dixie Vlly.)

Dixie Valley is 3,430 feet [1,045 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Dixie Valley is about ¾ mile [or ~1 km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Dixie Valley lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Dixie Valley: 775

Communities Also Named Dixie Valley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Dixie Valley - it's located in Utah.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dixie Valley.

Communities near Dixie Valley ...

We have created a list of 3 communities that are near Dixie Valley.

  • Boyer ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Boyer is located in Churchill County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer
  • Stillwater
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Stillwater is located in Churchill County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater
  • Eastgate
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Eastgate is located in Churchill County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgate

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 Dixie Valley. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Dixie Valley.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Dixie Valley. 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 Dixie Valley.

Adding Dixie Valley to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Dixie Valley 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 Dixie Valley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Dixie Valley post office opened in 1918. The Dixie Valley post office closed in 1933.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dixie Valley.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Nevada's counties, including Churchill, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Dixie Valley - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/