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Welcome to Asylum ...

Asylum is located in Bradford County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Asylum, you might consider that their post office opened in 1801.

Asylum is 740 feet [226 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Asylum lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Asylum: 570 & 272<3>

Communities Also Named Asylum ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 6 communities that are also named Asylum - they are located in California, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and North Carolina.

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

Communities near Asylum ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Asylum ...

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

Adding Asylum to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Asylum post office opened in 1801. The Asylum post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Asylum.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Bradford, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Asylum - 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 570 code has been Overlayed with the 272 area code. New phone numbers in the Asylum area will be assigned with one of these codes: 570 or 272. As a result, placing a call in the Asylum 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/