Welcome to Oak Forest ...Oak Forest is located Oak Forest is located in Gonzales County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Oak Forest, you might consider that their post office opened in 1877. Oak Forest is 340 feet [104 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Oak Forest lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Oak Forest: 830 Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Texas communities named Oak Forest: This one is located in Gonzales County and the other is located in Harris County. Beyond Texas, there are 26 communities that are also named Oak Forest - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (4), Florida, Georgia (2), Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Maryland, North Carolina (4), Pennsylvania, South Carolina (3) and Virginia (3). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Oak Forest. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Oak Forest. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Oak Forest. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Oak Forest. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Oak Forest. 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 Oak Forest. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Oak Forest. See our Newspapers Page for Oak Forest. Looking for more information about Oak Forest? 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 Oak Forest, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Oak Forest. We originally found mention of Oak Forest 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 for Oak Forest was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> We also found Oak Forest in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Oak Forest.
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