Welcome to La Plata ...So far, we found very little information about La Plata. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added La Plata to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with La Plata, please Contact Us. La Plata was located in the Texas Panhandle. La Plata would have been located within present day Deaf Smith County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of La Plata, you might consider that their post office opened in 1890. Time Zone: The area where La Plata was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Note: If you travel west from La Plata (for example, toward Grady (NM)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT). The Area Code where La Plata was located: 806 Going back to its beginning, La Plata was originally named Grenada. For more information about the names of La Plata, see The Names of La Plata on our Genealogy Page. Communities Also Named La Plata ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Texas communities named La Plata: This one is located in Deaf Smith County and the other is located in Presidio County. Beyond Texas, there are 7 communities that are also named La Plata - they are located in Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for La Plata. Communities near La Plata ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near La Plata.
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 La Plata. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for La Plata. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of La Plata. 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 La Plata. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around La Plata. See our Newspapers Page for La Plata. Adding La Plata to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of La Plata 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 La Plata was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for La Plata. Footnotes ...
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