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Retreat is located Retreat is located in Grimes County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Retreat, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851. Time Zone: Retreat lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time The area code for Retreat: (936) While we believe that this Retreat is located in Grimes County, we know of another 2 Texas communities named Retreat. Those communities are located in the following counties: Hill and Navarro County. Beyond Texas, there are 15 communities that are also named Retreat - they are located in California, Georgia (2), Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Retreat. We originally found mention of Retreat 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 Retreat was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2> We also found Retreat in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
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From that list, the Retreat post office opened in 1851.Off-the-Road Links ...
Footnotes ...
<1> If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Grimes, 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/