Welcome to Brookhaven ...Brookhaven is located Brookhaven is located in Bell County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Brookhaven, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884. Brookhaven is 700 feet [213 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Brookhaven lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Brookhaven: 254 Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Texas communities named Brookhaven: This one is located in Bell County and the other is located in Harris County. Beyond Texas, there are 26 communities that are also named Brookhaven - they are located in Alabama, Delaware, Georgia (4), Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York (2), North Carolina (3), Pennsylvania, South Carolina (2), Tennessee, Utah, Virginia (2) and West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Brookhaven. Junior League: www.jlbellco.org/ We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Brookhaven. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Brookhaven. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Brookhaven. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Brookhaven. 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 Brookhaven. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Brookhaven. See our Newspapers Page for Brookhaven. Looking for more information about Brookhaven? 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 Brookhaven, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Brookhaven. We originally found mention of Brookhaven in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Brookhaven was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Brookhaven.
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