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Welcome to Letart Falls ...

Letart Falls is located in Meigs County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Letart Falls, you might consider that their post office opened in 1826.

Letart Falls is 590 feet [180 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Letart Falls: 740 & 220<3>

Communities near Letart Falls ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Letart Falls.

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Letart Falls ...

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

Adding Letart Falls to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Letart Falls post office opened in 1826. The Letart Falls post office closed in 1959.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Letart Falls.

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 Letart Falls - 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 Letart Falls area will be assigned with one of these codes: 740 or 220. As a result, placing a call in the Letart Falls 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/