Welcome to Sweetwater ...So far, we found very little information about Sweetwater. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Sweetwater to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sweetwater, please Contact Us. Sweetwater would have been located within present day Lyon County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Sweetwater, you might consider that their post office opened in 1870. While the community is gone, the present day location for Sweetwater is 6,260 feet [1,908 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the altitude of Sweetwater is about 1¼ mile [or ~2 km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Sweetwater was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Code where Sweetwater was located: 775 Communities Also Named Sweetwater ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Nevada communities named Sweetwater: This one is located in Lyon County and the other is located in Esmeralda County. Beyond Nevada, there are 32 communities that are also named Sweetwater - they are located in Alabama, Arizona (3), British Columbia, California, Colorado, Florida (5), Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri (2), Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina (2), North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee (2) and Texas (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sweetwater. Communities near Sweetwater ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Sweetwater.
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 Sweetwater. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Sweetwater. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Sweetwater. 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 Sweetwater. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Sweetwater. See our Newspapers Page for Sweetwater. Adding Sweetwater to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Sweetwater in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Sweetwater was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Sweetwater. Footnotes ...
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