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Welcome to Pluto ...

Pluto is located

Pluto is located in Ellis County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pluto, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1894.

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

Communities Also Named Pluto ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Pluto - they are located in Mississippi and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pluto.

Adding Pluto to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Pluto 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 for Pluto was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Pluto post office opened in 1894.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pluto.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Ellis, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/