Welcome to Bays Bottom ...

So far, we found very little information about Bays Bottom. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Bays Bottom to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Bays Bottom - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Bays Bottom, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Bays Bottom <3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day Gallia County<2>.

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

Time Zone: The area where Bays Bottom was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Bays Bottom was located: 740 & 220<4>

Websites for Bays Bottom ...

Chamber of Commerce: www.galliacounty.org/

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

Adding Bays Bottom to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Bays Bottom post office opened in 1847.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bays Bottom.

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bays Bottom, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Ohio's counties, including Gallia, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Bays Bottom may originally have been Bay's Bottom. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Bays Bottom might be written as Bay Bottom. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Bays Bottom.
<4>	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 740 code has been Overlayed with the 220 area code. New phone numbers in the Bays Bottom area will be assigned with one of these codes: 740 or 220. As a result, placing a call in the Bays Bottom area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/