Welcome to Lois ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Lois, you might consider that their post office opened in 1882.

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

The Area Codes where Lois was located: 740 & 220<3>

Communities Also Named Lois ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Lois - they are located in California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas (2), Utah and Virginia.

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

Adding Lois to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Lois 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 Lois was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

X2X - From that list, the Lois post office opened in 1882.

We also found Lois in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Lois.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Scioto County: www.sciotocountyohio.com/

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 Lois, 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 Scioto, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<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 Lois area will be assigned with one of these codes: 740 or 220. As a result, placing a call in the Lois area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/