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Welcome to View ...

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

We've added View to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with View, please Contact Us.

View would have been located within present day Ross County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of View, you might consider that their post office opened in 1876.

While the community is gone, the present day location for View is 950 feet [290 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

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

Communities Also Named View ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named View - they are located in Georgia, Idaho, Kentucky, Texas, Washington and West Virginia.

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

Communities near View ...

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

  • Chillicothe
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Circleville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Greenfield
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Waverly City
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Waverly City is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly City
    • Estimated population in 2011: 4,395 people
  • Waverly
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Williamsport
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Kingston
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Frankfort
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • New Holland
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Bainbridge
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)

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

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

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

Adding View to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of View 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 (so far) for View was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the View post office opened in 1876. The View post office closed in 1881.

For more details, see References and Mentions for View.

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 View, 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 Ross, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around View - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<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 View area will be assigned with one of these codes: 740 or 220. As a result, placing a call in the View area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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/