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Welcome to Casper ...So far, we found very little information about Casper. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Casper to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Casper, please Contact Us. Casper would have been located within present day Johnson County<2>. The location of Casper has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Casper, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886. While the community is gone, the present day location for Casper is 2,040 feet [622 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Casper was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Casper still existed, it would have been in the (423) area code. Communities Also Named Casper ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Casper - it's located in Wyoming. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Casper. Communities near Casper ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Casper.
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 Casper. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Casper. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Casper. 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 Casper. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Casper. See our Newspapers Page for Casper. Adding Casper to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Casper 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 Casper was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Casper on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888). For more details, see References and Mentions for Casper. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/ Footnotes ...
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