Welcome to Home ...

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

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

Home would have been located within present day Malheur County<2>.

The location of Home has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>

While we don't have a date for the founding of Home, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1878.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Home is 2,330 feet [710 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the elevation of Home is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Home was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

If Home still existed, it would have been in the (541) & (458)<5> area codes.

Communities Also Named Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 10 communities that are also named Home - they are located in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Ohio (2), Pennsylvania, Washington and West Virginia.

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

Communities near Home ...

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

• Ontario
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ontario have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ontario
  • Ontario is located in Malheur County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,140 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ontario <6>
• Payette
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Payette
  • Payette is located in Payette County (ID)
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,012 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Payette <6>
• Fruitland
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fruitland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitland
  • Fruitland is located in Payette County (ID)
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,568 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fruitland <6>
• Weiser
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weiser
  • Weiser is located in Washington County (ID)
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,463 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weiser <6>
• Nyssa
  (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nyssa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyssa
  • Nyssa is located in Malheur County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,231 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nyssa <6>
• Vale
  (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vale
  • Vale is located in Malheur County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,806 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vale <6>
• Huntington
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntington have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntington
  • Huntington is located in Baker County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 442 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Huntington <6>
• Jamieson
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamieson
  • Jamieson is located in Malheur County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jamieson <6>
• Washoe
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washoe
  • Washoe is located in Payette County (ID)
• Eaton
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaton
  • Eaton is located in Washington County (ID)

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

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

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

Adding Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Home 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 Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7>

From that list, the Home post office opened in 1878.

We also found Home mentioned on a train schedule titled Union Pacific Railroad Time Tables (June 1939).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Home.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Malheur County: www.malheurco.org/

The official website for State of Oregon: https://www.oregon.gov/