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Welcome to Woods Valley ...

Woods Valley is located in Dickson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Woods Valley, you might consider that their post office opened in 1871.

A typical abbreviation for Woods Valley: Woods Vly. (or less commonly used: Woods Vally. or Woods Vlly.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Woods Valley for more information about variations on the name of Woods Valley.

Woods Valley is 550 feet [168 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Woods Valley: 615 & 629<3>

Communities Also Named Woods Valley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Woods Valley - it's located in Georgia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Woods Valley.

Communities near Woods Valley ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Woods Valley.

  • Cheap Hill
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Cheap Hill is located in Cheatham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheap Hill
    • Estimated population in 2014: 173,778 people
  • Clarksville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Oakridge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Oakridge is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakridge
    • Estimated population in 2014: 29,303 people
  • Dickson
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Brownsville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Brownsville is located in Houston County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
    • Estimated population in 2014: 9,974 people
  • Louise Heights
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Louise Heights is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louise Heights
    • Estimated population in 2014: 5,715 people
  • Ashland City
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • White Bluff
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • McEwen
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Throckmorton
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Woods Valley ...

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

Adding Woods Valley to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Woods Valley 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 Woods Valley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Woods Valley post office opened in 1871. The Woods Valley post office closed in 1905.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Woods Valley.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Dickson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Woods Valley - 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 Woods Valley area will be assigned with one of these codes: 615 or 629. As a result, placing a call in the Woods Valley area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/