Welcome to Raccoon Island ...Raccoon Island is located in Gallia County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Raccoon Island, you might consider that their post office opened in 1841. A typical abbreviation for Raccoon Island: Raccoon Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.) Raccoon Island is 570 feet [174 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Raccoon Island lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Codes for Raccoon Island: 740 & 220<3> Websites for Raccoon Island ...Chamber of Commerce: www.galliacounty.org/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Raccoon Island, the following might be of interest: Communities near Raccoon Island ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Raccoon Island.
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 Raccoon Island. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Raccoon Island. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Raccoon Island. 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 Raccoon Island. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Raccoon Island. See our Newspapers Page for Raccoon Island. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Raccoon Island ...Looking for more information about Raccoon Island? 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 Raccoon Island, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Raccoon Island. Adding Raccoon Island to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Raccoon Island 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 Raccoon Island was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Raccoon Island. Footnotes ...
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