Welcome to Pawcatuck ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pawcatuck, you might consider that their post office opened in 1847.

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

Pawcatuck would have been located in the (401) area code.

Communities Also Named Pawcatuck ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Pawcatuck - it's located in Connecticut.

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

Adding Pawcatuck to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pawcatuck 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 Pawcatuck was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Pawcatuck post office opened in 1847.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pawcatuck.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Rhode Island: https://www.ri.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 Pawcatuck, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of the state's counties, including Washington, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/