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Welcome to Tucker ...

So far, we found very little information about Tucker. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Tucker to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Tucker, please Contact Us.

Tucker would have been located within present day Utah County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Tucker, you might consider that their post office opened in 1881.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Tucker is 6,220 feet [1,896 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Tucker is about 1¼ mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Tucker was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Tucker was located: 801 & 385<4>

In the past, Tucker was named Clear Creek.

Communities Also Named Tucker ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 21 communities that are also named Tucker - they are located in Alabama (3), Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois (2), Kentucky, Manitoba, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma (2), Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington and West Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Tucker.

Communities near Tucker ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Tucker.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Tucker. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Tucker.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Tucker. 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 Tucker.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Tucker. See our Newspapers Page for Tucker.

Adding Tucker to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Tucker 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 Tucker was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Tucker post office opened in 1881. The Tucker post office closed in 1919.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Tucker.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Tucker, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Utah's counties, including Utah, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Tucker - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 801 code has been Overlayed with the 385 area code. New phone numbers in the Tucker area will be assigned with one of these codes: 801 or 385. As a result, placing a call in the Tucker area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/