Welcome to Woonsocket Falls ...

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

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

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

While we don't have a date for the founding of Woonsocket Falls, you might consider that their post office opened in 1827.

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

The location where Woonsocket Falls once stood is in the (401) area code.

Adding Woonsocket Falls to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Woonsocket Falls post office opened in 1827.

We also found Woonsocket Falls in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Woonsocket Falls.

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 Woonsocket Falls, 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 Providence, 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/