Welcome to Vilas ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Vilas, you might consider that their post office opened in 1894.

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

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

Communities Also Named Vilas ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 9 communities that are also named Vilas - they are located in Colorado, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Vilas to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Vilas 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 Vilas was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

X2X - From that list, the Vilas post office opened in 1894.

We also found Vilas on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Pennsylvania (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Vilas.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Lycoming County: www.lyco.org/

The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/

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 Vilas, 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 Lycoming, 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 Vilas area will be assigned with one of these codes: 570 or 272. As a result, placing a call in the Vilas 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/