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Welcome to Beaver Dams ...

Beaver Dams is located in Schuyler County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Beaver Dams, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1845.

Beaver Dams is 1,260 feet [384 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Beaver Dams lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Beaver Dams: 607

Communities Also Named Beaver Dams ...

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

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Beaver Dams.

Communities near Beaver Dams ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Beaver Dams.

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

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

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Beaver Dams. See our Newspapers Page for Beaver Dams.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Beaver Dams ...

Looking for more information about Beaver Dams? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

In addition to the Tourism page for Beaver Dams, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Beaver Dams.

Adding Beaver Dams to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Beaver Dams 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 for Beaver Dams was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Beaver Dams post office opened in 1845.

We also found Beaver Dams in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Beaver Dams.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New York's counties, including Schuyler, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Beaver Dams - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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