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Welcome to Bills Place ...

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

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


Bills Place would have been located within present day Fulton County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bills Place, you might consider that their post office opened in 1935.

A typical abbreviation for Bills Place: Bills Pl. (or less commonly used: Bills Plc.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Bills Place for more information about variations on the name of Bills Place.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Bills Place is 1,860 feet [567 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

Communities near Bills Place ...

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

  • Bedford
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Everett
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Todd
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Todd is located in Huntingdon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todd
  • McConnellsburg
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Saxton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Broad Top City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Broad Top City is located in Huntingdon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broad Top City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 443 people
  • Three Springs
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Saltillo
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Saltillo is located in Huntingdon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saltillo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 328 people
  • Woodbury
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Hopewell
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)

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

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

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

Adding Bills Place to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Bills Place post office opened in 1935. The Bills Place post office closed in 1953.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bills Place.

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 Bills Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Fulton, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Bills Place - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<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/