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Welcome to Chapel Hill ...

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

We've added Chapel Hill to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Chapel Hill, please Contact Us.

Chapel Hill would have been located within present day Perry County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Chapel Hill, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1848.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Chapel Hill is 1,030 feet [314 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

The Area Codes where Chapel Hill was located: 740 & 220<4>

Communities Also Named Chapel Hill ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 39 communities that are also named Chapel Hill - they are located in Alabama (6), Arkansas (2), Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia (4), Illinois, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland (3), Mississippi (2), Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina (2), Pennsylvania, Quebec, South Carolina, Tennessee (3), Texas (2), Utah and Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Chapel Hill.

Communities near Chapel Hill ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Chapel Hill.

  • Logan
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Nelsonville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nelsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelsonville
    • Nelsonville is located in Athens County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,119 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nelsonville <5>
  • New Lexington
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Crooksville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • South Zanesville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Zanesville have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Zanesville
    • South Zanesville is located in Muskingum County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,095 people
  • Roseville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Glouster
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glouster have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glouster
    • Glouster is located in Athens County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,779 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glouster <5>
  • McConnelsville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McConnelsville have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McConnelsville
    • McConnelsville is located in Morgan County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,720 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McConnelsville <5>
  • Somerset
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Chauncey
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chauncey have been provided by the GNIS.<6> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chauncey
    • Chauncey is located in Athens County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,038 people

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

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

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

Adding Chapel Hill to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Chapel Hill 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 Chapel Hill was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

X2X - From that list, the Chapel Hill post office opened in 1848.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Chapel Hill.

The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/

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 Chapel Hill, 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 Perry, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Chapel Hill - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<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 Chapel Hill area will be assigned with one of these codes: 740 or 220. As a result, placing a call in the Chapel Hill area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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.
<7>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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




 

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