Welcome to Mountain Springs ...

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

We've added Mountain Springs to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Mountain Springs - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Mountain Springs, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Mountain Springs , we believe that it would have been located within present day Luzerne County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mountain Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1914.

A typical abbreviation for Mountain Springs: Mtn. Springs

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

The Area Codes where Mountain Springs was located: 570 & 272<3>

Communities Also Named Mountain Springs ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 8 communities that are also named Mountain Springs - they are located in Arkansas, Georgia, Nevada (3), Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.

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

Adding Mountain Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Mountain Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Mountain Springs post office opened in 1914.

We also found Mountain Springs in the book titled North American Railroad Atlas - Northeast.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mountain Springs.

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 Mountain Springs, 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 Luzerne, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<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 Mountain Springs area will be assigned with one of these codes: 570 or 272. As a result, placing a call in the Mountain Springs area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/