Welcome to Harvey ...Harvey is located Harvey is located in Brazos County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Harvey, you might consider that their post office opened in 1886. Harvey is 320 feet [98 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Harvey lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Harvey: 979 Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 29 communities that are also named Harvey - they are located in Arkansas, British Columbia, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Brunswick (2), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Vermont, Virginia (2), Washington (2), West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Harvey. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Harvey. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Harvey. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Harvey. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Harvey. 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 Harvey. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Harvey. See our Newspapers Page for Harvey. Looking for more information about Harvey? 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 Harvey, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Harvey. We originally found mention of Harvey 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 Harvey was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Harvey.
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