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Welcome to Great Bend ...

Great Bend is located in Meigs County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Great Bend, you might consider that their post office opened in 1846.

Great Bend is 590 feet [180 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Great Bend: 740 & 220<3>

Communities Also Named Great Bend ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Great Bend - they are located in Kansas, New York, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Great Bend.

Communities near Great Bend ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Great Bend.

  • Point Pleasant
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Ripley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Ripley is located in Jackson County (WV)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,139 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ripley <4>
  • Middleport
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Pomeroy
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • New Haven
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Mason
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Mason is located in Mason County (WV)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 920 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mason <4>
  • Syracuse
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Racine
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Hartford City
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Hartford City is located in Mason County (WV)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 593 people
  • Coolville
    (18 miles [29 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 Great Bend. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Great Bend.

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Great Bend ...

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

Adding Great Bend to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Great Bend 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 Great Bend was in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Great Bend.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Ohio's counties, including Meigs, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Great Bend - 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 740 code has been Overlayed with the 220 area code. New phone numbers in the Great Bend area will be assigned with one of these codes: 740 or 220. As a result, placing a call in the Great Bend 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.