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Welcome to Leipers Fork ...

Leipers Fork is located in Williamson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Leipers Fork, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

A typical abbreviation for Leipers Fork: Leipers Frk.

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Leipers Fork for more information about variations on the name of Leipers Fork.

Leipers Fork is 670 feet [204 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Leipers Fork: 615 & 629<3>

Going back to its beginning, Leipers Fork was originally named Hillsboro<4>. For more information about the names of Leipers Fork, see The Names of Leipers Fork on our Genealogy Page.

Communities near Leipers Fork ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Leipers Fork.

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Leipers Fork ...

Looking for more information about Leipers Fork? 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.

In addition to the Tourism page for Leipers Fork, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Leipers Fork.

Adding Leipers Fork to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Leipers Fork 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 Leipers Fork was in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Leipers Fork.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Williamson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Leipers Fork - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 Leipers Fork area will be assigned with one of these codes: 615 or 629. As a result, placing a call in the Leipers Fork area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Leipers Fork may originally have been Leiper's Fork. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Leipers Fork might be written as Leiper Fork. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Leipers Fork.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.