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Welcome to Waterloo Mills ...

Waterloo Mills is located in Orange County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Waterloo Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1856.

A typical abbreviation for Waterloo Mills: Waterloo Mls. (or less commonly used: Waterloo Mlls.)

Waterloo Mills is 520 feet [158 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Waterloo Mills: 845 & 329<3>

Communities Also Named Waterloo Mills ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Waterloo Mills - it's located in Pennsylvania.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Waterloo Mills.

Websites for Waterloo Mills ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.orangeny.org/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Waterloo Mills, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Waterloo Mills ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Waterloo Mills.

  • Middletown
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Port Jervis
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Warwick
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Goshen
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Chester
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Greenwood Lake
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Florida
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Matamoras
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Wurtsboro
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Otisville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Waterloo Mills ...

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

Adding Waterloo Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Waterloo Mills post office opened in 1856. The Waterloo Mills post office closed in 1879.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Waterloo Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New York's counties, including Orange, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Waterloo Mills - 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 845 code has been Overlayed with the 329 area code. New phone numbers in the Waterloo Mills area will be assigned with one of these codes: 845 or 329. As a result, placing a call in the Waterloo Mills 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/