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Welcome to Friends Station ...

Friends Station is located in Jefferson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Friends Station, you might consider that their post office opened in 1867.

A typical abbreviation for Friends Station: Friends Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Friends Station for more information about variations on the name of Friends Station.

Friends Station is 990 feet [302 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Friends Station lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Friends Station: 865

Communities near Friends Station ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Friends Station.

  • Kodak
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Clevenger
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Clevenger is located in Cocke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clevenger
    • Estimated population in 2014: 43,182 people
  • Cook Mill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Cook Mill is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook Mill
    • Estimated population in 2014: 31,335 people
  • Morristown
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Sevierville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Dyers Ferry
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Dyers Ferry is located in Grainger County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyers Ferry
    • Estimated population in 2014: 16,839 people
  • Seymour Heights
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Seymour Heights is located in Sevier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seymour Heights
    • Population from the 2010 Census: 10,919 people
  • Jefferson City
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Oakland
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Oakland is located in Grainger County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland
    • Estimated population in 2014: 7,316 people
  • Harrisburg
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Harrisburg is located in Sevier County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
    • Estimated population in 2014: 6,219 people

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Friends Station ...

Looking for more information about Friends Station? 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 Friends Station, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Friends Station.

Adding Friends Station to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Friends Station 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 (so far) for Friends Station was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Friends Station post office opened in 1867. The Friends Station post office closed in 1907.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Friends Station.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Jefferson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Friends Station - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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