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Welcome to Cottage Home ...

Cottage Home is located in Wilson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cottage Home, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1877.

From the 2010 Census (the most recent Census number we have), Cottage Home had a population of 88 people.<2> (see below for details).

Cottage Home is 650 feet [198 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: Cottage Home lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Cottage Home: 615 & 629<4>

Communities Also Named Cottage Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Cottage Home - they are located in Illinois and North Carolina.

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

Communities near Cottage Home ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Cottage Home.

  • Temperance Hall
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Temperance Hall. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temperance Hall
    • Temperance Hall is located in DeKalb County
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 5,791 people
  • Smithville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Woodbury
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Carthage
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Bluff Creek
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bluff Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<7> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Creek
    • Bluff Creek is located in Smith County
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,734 people
  • Watertown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • South Carthage
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Carthage have been provided by the GNIS.<7> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Carthage
    • South Carthage is located in Smith County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,406 people
  • Gordonsville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Alexandria
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Dowelltown
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)

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 Cottage Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Cottage Home.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Cottage Home. 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 Cottage Home.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Cottage Home. See our Newspapers Page for Cottage Home.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Cottage Home ...

Looking for more information about Cottage Home? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Cottage Home, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Cottage Home.

Adding Cottage Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cottage Home in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Cottage Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<8>

X2X - From that list, the Cottage Home post office opened in 1877.

We also found Cottage Home on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Tennessee (1888).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cottage Home.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Cottage Home. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Wilson County: www.wilsoncountytn.com/

The official website for State of Tennessee: https://www.tn.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Wilson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Cottage Home.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cottage Home - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 615 code has been Overlayed with the 629 area code. New phone numbers in the Cottage Home area will be assigned with one of these codes: 615 or 629. As a result, placing a call in the Cottage Home area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<7>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<8>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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