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Welcome to Sprucemont ...

Sprucemont is located in Elko County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sprucemont, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886.

Sprucemont is 6,930 feet [2,112 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Sprucemont is about 1¼ mile [or ~2¼ km] above sea level.

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

Area Code for Sprucemont: 775

Communities near Sprucemont ...

We have created a list of 7 communities that are near Sprucemont.

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

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

Adding Sprucemont to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Sprucemont post office opened in 1886. The Sprucemont post office closed in 1935.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sprucemont.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Nevada's counties, including Elko, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Sprucemont - 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/