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Welcome to Retreat ...

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

Area Code for Retreat: 936

Communities Also Named Retreat ...

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.

Adding Retreat to Our Gazetteer ...

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>

From that list, the Retreat post office opened in 1851.

We also found Retreat in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Retreat.

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/