Welcome to Vontress ...

Vontress is located in the Texas Panhandle.

Vontress is located in Haskell County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Vontress, you might consider that their post office opened in 1906.

Time Zone: Vontress lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Vontress: 940

Adding Vontress to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Vontress 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 Vontress was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Vontress post office opened in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Vontress.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Texas' counties, including Haskell, 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/