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Welcome to Hess Road ...

Hess Road is located in Niagara County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hess Road, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1847.

Hess Road is 340 feet [104 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Hess Road: 716 & 624<3>

Communities near Hess Road ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Hess Road.

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Hess Road ...

Looking for more information about Hess Road? 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.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Hess Road, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Hess Road.

Adding Hess Road to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Hess Road 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 for Hess Road was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Hess Road post office opened in 1847.

We also found Hess Road in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hess Road.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New York's counties, including Niagara, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Hess Road - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 716 code has been Overlayed with the 624 area code. New phone numbers in the Hess Road area will be assigned with one of these codes: 716 or 624. As a result, placing a call in the Hess Road area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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