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Welcome to Little Elk ...

Little Elk is located in Erie County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Little Elk, you might consider that their post office opened in 1890.

Little Elk is 920 feet [280 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Little Elk: 814 & 582<3>

Communities Also Named Little Elk ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Little Elk - it's located in Oregon.

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

Communities near Little Elk ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Little Elk ...

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

Adding Little Elk to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Little Elk post office opened in 1890. The Little Elk post office closed in 1901.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Little Elk.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties, including Erie, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Little Elk - 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 814 code has been Overlayed with the 582 area code. New phone numbers in the Little Elk area will be assigned with one of these codes: 814 or 582. As a result, placing a call in the Little Elk 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/