Welcome to Roane ...Roane is located Roane is located in Navarro County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Roane, you might consider that their post office opened in 1892. Roane is 420 feet [128 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Roane lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Roane - it's located in Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Roane. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Roane. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Roane. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Roane. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Roane. 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 Roane. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Roane. See our Newspapers Page for Roane. Looking for more information about Roane? 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 Roane, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Roane. We originally found mention of Roane 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 (so far) for Roane was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Roane.
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