Welcome to Brandon ...Brandon is located Brandon is located in Hill County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Brandon, you might consider that their post office opened in 1873. Brandon is 620 feet [189 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Brandon lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Brandon: 254 The ZIP code for Brandon: 76628<3> Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 27 communities that are also named Brandon - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina (2), Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brandon. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brandon. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brandon. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brandon. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brandon. 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 Brandon. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brandon. See our Newspapers Page for Brandon. Looking for more information about Brandon? 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 Brandon, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Brandon. We originally found mention of Brandon 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 Brandon was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Brandon.
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