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Welcome to Chota ...So far, we found very little information about Chota. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Chota to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Chota, please Contact Us. Chota would have been located within present day Monroe County<2>. The location of Chota has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Chota, you might consider that their post office opened in 1818. While the community is gone, the present day location for Chota is 810 feet [247 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Chota was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from Chota (for example, toward Pikeville), you will leave Eastern Time and cross into the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT). Websites for Chota ...Chamber of Commerce: www.monroecountychamber.org/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Chota, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Chota ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Tennessee communities named Chota: This one is located in Monroe County and the other is located in Blount County. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Chota. Communities near Chota ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Chota.
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 Chota. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Chota. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Chota. 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 Chota. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Chota. See our Newspapers Page for Chota. Adding Chota to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Chota 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 Chota was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Chota. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Monroe County: www.monroegovernment.org/ The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/ Footnotes ...
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