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Welcome to Point Rock ...

Point Rock is located in Oneida County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Point Rock, you might consider that their post office opened in 1875.

A typical abbreviation for Point Rock: Pt. Rock

Point Rock is 1,010 feet [308 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Point Rock: 315 & 680<3>

Communities Also Named Point Rock ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Point Rock - it's located in Ohio.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Point Rock.

Communities near Point Rock ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Point Rock.

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Point Rock ...

Looking for more information about Point Rock? 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 Point Rock, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Point Rock.

Adding Point Rock to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Point Rock post office opened in 1875. The Point Rock post office closed in 1936.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Point Rock.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New York's counties, including Oneida, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Point Rock - 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 315 code has been Overlayed with the 680 area code. New phone numbers in the Point Rock area will be assigned with one of these codes: 315 or 680. As a result, placing a call in the Point Rock 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>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/