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Welcome to Beland ...

Beland is located in Muskogee County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Beland, you might consider that their post office opened in 1908.

Beland is 580 feet [177 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Beland lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Beland: 918 & 539<3>

Communities Also Named Beland ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Beland - it's located in Quebec.

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

Communities near Beland ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Beland ...

Looking for more information about Beland? 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 Beland, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Beland.

Adding Beland to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Beland post office opened in 1908. The Beland post office closed in 1926.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Beland.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Oklahoma's counties, including Muskogee, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Beland - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<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 918 code has been Overlayed with the 539 area code. New phone numbers in the Beland area will be assigned with one of these codes: 918 or 539. As a result, placing a call in the Beland area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/