Welcome to Silver Lake ...
Silver Lake is located Silver Lake is located in Van Zandt County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Silver Lake, you might consider that their post office opened in 1874. A typical abbreviation for Silver Lake: Silver Lk. Silver Lake is 390 feet [119 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Silver Lake lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Codes for Silver Lake: 903 & 430<3> Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 48 communities that are also named Silver Lake - they are located in British Columbia, California (2), Colorado, Florida (2), Georgia (2), Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts (2), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey (2), New York (3), North Carolina (2), Ohio (2), Ontario (3), Oregon, Pennsylvania (3), Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Washington (4), West Virginia and Wisconsin (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Silver Lake. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Silver Lake. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Silver Lake. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Silver Lake. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Silver Lake. 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 Silver Lake. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Silver Lake. See our Newspapers Page for Silver Lake. Looking for more information about Silver Lake? 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 Silver Lake, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Silver Lake. We originally found mention of Silver Lake 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 Silver Lake was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Silver Lake in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Silver Lake.
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Silver Lake. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page. The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/Communities Also Named Silver Lake ...
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TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Silver Lake ...
Adding Silver Lake to Our Gazetteer ...
X2X - From that list, the Silver Lake post office opened in 1874.Off-the-Road Links ...
Footnotes ...
<1> If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Van Zandt, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. <2> The elevation is an estimate for the area around Silver Lake - it will be higher in some places and lower in others. <3> When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 903 code has been Overlayed with the 430 area code. New phone numbers in the Silver Lake area will be assigned with one of these codes: 903 or 430. As a result, placing a call in the Silver Lake area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number). <4> The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. <5> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. <6> A copy of their list with background information can be found at:
https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/