Welcome to Lewis ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lewis, you might consider that their post office opened in 1819.

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

Communities Also Named Lewis ...

While we believe that this Lewis is located in Brown County, we know of another 2 Ohio communities named Lewis. Those communities are located in the following counties: Morgan and Muskingum County.

Beyond Ohio, there are 40 communities that are also named Lewis - they are located in Alabama (4), Arkansas (2), California (2), Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (3), Manitoba, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York (2), North Carolina (2), Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas (2), Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Lewis to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lewis 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 Lewis was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

X2X - From that list, the Lewis post office opened in 1819.

We also found Lewis in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lewis.

Off-the-Road Links ...

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 Lewis, 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 Brown, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/