Welcome to Nashville ...So far, we found very little information about Nashville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Nashville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Nashville, please Contact Us. Nashville was located Nashville would have been located within present day Milam County<2>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Nashville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1835. When the people of Nashville referred to themselves (known as a demonym), they are believed to have used Nashvillian<3> While the community is gone, the present day location for Nashville is 290 feet [88 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Nashville was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 33 communities that are also named Nashville - they are located in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana (2), Iowa, Kansas (2), Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nebraska, Nevada, New York (2), North Carolina, Ohio (3), Ontario, Oregon (2), Pennsylvania (2), South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Nashville. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Nashville. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Nashville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Nashville. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Nashville. 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 Nashville. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Nashville. See our Newspapers Page for Nashville. We originally found mention of Nashville 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 Nashville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Nashville.
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