Welcome to Taft ...So far, we found very little information about Taft. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Taft to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Taft, please Contact Us. Taft would have been located within present day White Pine County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Taft, you might consider that their post office opened in 1909. While the community is gone, the present day location for Taft is 5,670 feet [1,728 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Taft is about 1 mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level. Time Zone: The area where Taft was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time The Area Code where Taft was located: 775 Communities Also Named Taft ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 22 communities that are also named Taft - they are located in Alabama, British Columbia, California, Florida (2), Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Taft. Communities near Taft ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Taft.
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 Taft. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Taft. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Taft. 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 Taft. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Taft. See our Newspapers Page for Taft. Adding Taft to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Taft 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 Taft was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Taft. Footnotes ...
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