Welcome to Sweet Home ...Sweet Home is located Sweet Home is located in Lavaca County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Sweet Home, you might consider that their post office opened in 1852. Sweet Home is 280 feet [85 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Sweet Home lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Sweet Home: 361 The ZIP code for Sweet Home: 77987<3> While we believe that this Sweet Home is located in Lavaca County, we know of another 2 Texas communities named Sweet Home. Those communities are located in the following counties: Guadalupe and Lee County. Beyond Texas, there are 12 communities that are also named Sweet Home - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (2), Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sweet Home. We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Sweet Home. We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy. We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Sweet Home. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Sweet Home. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Sweet Home. 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 Sweet Home. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Sweet Home. See our Newspapers Page for Sweet Home. Looking for more information about Sweet Home? 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. In addition to the Tourism page for Sweet Home, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Sweet Home. We originally found mention of Sweet Home 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 Sweet Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> For more details, see References and Mentions for Sweet Home.
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