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Welcome to Mount Selman ...

Mount Selman is located in the Piney Woods (East Texas).

Mount Selman is located in Cherokee County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mount Selman, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

A typical abbreviation for Mount Selman: Mt. Selman

Mount Selman is 690 feet [210 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Mount Selman lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities near Mount Selman ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mount Selman.

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 Mount Selman. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mount Selman.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mount Selman. 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 Mount Selman.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Selman. See our Newspapers Page for Mount Selman.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mount Selman ...

Looking for more information about Mount Selman? 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 Mount Selman, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Mount Selman.

Adding Mount Selman to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mount Selman 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 Mount Selman was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mount Selman.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Cherokee, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mount Selman - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.