Welcome to Forest Home ...

So far, we found very little information about Forest Home. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Forest Home to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Forest Home - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Forest Home, please Contact Us.

Forest Home was located in the Piney Woods (East Texas).

While we don't have the exact location of Forest Home , we believe that it would have been located within present day Cass County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Forest Home, you might consider that their post office opened in 1850.

Time Zone: The area where Forest Home was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where Forest Home once stood is in the (903) & (430)<3> area codes.

Communities Also Named Forest Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 13 communities that are also named Forest Home - they are located in Alabama, California (2), Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Tennessee and Utah.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Forest Home.

Adding Forest Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Forest Home 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 for Forest Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Forest Home post office opened in 1850.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Forest Home.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Forest Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Cass, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	Area code (430) is an overlay for area code (903).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/