Welcome to Lightner ...Lightner is located in Big Bend Country (West Texas). Lightner is located in Concho County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Lightner, you might consider that their post office opened in 1911. Lightner is 1,880 feet [573 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Lightner lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Lightner: 325 Communities Also Named Lightner ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Lightner - they are located in Oregon and Pennsylvania. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lightner. Communities near Lightner ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lightner.
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 Lightner. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lightner. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lightner. 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 Lightner. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lightner. See our Newspapers Page for Lightner. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Lightner ...Looking for more information about Lightner? 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 Lightner, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Lightner. Adding Lightner to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Lightner 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 Lightner was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4> For more details, see References and Mentions for Lightner. Footnotes ...
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