Welcome to Sims Valley ...

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

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

While we don't have the exact location of Sims Valley <3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day Muskingum County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sims Valley, you might consider that their post office opened in 1840.

A typical abbreviation for Sims Valley: Sims Vly. (or less commonly used: Sims Vally. or Sims Vlly.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Sims Valley for more information about variations on the name of Sims Valley.

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

The Area Codes where Sims Valley was located: 740 & 220<4>

Communities Also Named Sims Valley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Sims Valley - it's located in Texas.

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

Adding Sims Valley to Our Gazetteer ...

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

X2X - From that list, the Sims Valley post office opened in 1840.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sims Valley.

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 Sims Valley, 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 Muskingum, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Sims Valley may originally have been Sim's Valley. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Sims Valley might be written as Sim Valley. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Sims Valley.
<4>	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 Sims Valley area will be assigned with one of these codes: 740 or 220. As a result, placing a call in the Sims Valley area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/