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Welcome to Park Valley ...

Park Valley is located in Box Elder County<1>.

Park Valley was established in 1869.

A typical abbreviation for Park Valley: Park Vly. (or less commonly used: Park Vally. or Park Vlly.)

Park Valley is 5,540 feet [1,689 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Park Valley is about 1 mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Park Valley lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Park Valley and travel west, you will leave Mountain Time and cross into the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT).

Area Code for Park Valley: 435

The ZIP code for Park Valley: 84329<3>

Communities Also Named Park Valley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Park Valley - it's located in Kentucky.

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

Communities near Park Valley ...

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

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 Park Valley. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Park Valley.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Park Valley ...

Looking for more information about Park Valley? 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 Park Valley, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Park Valley.

Adding Park Valley to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Park Valley 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 Park Valley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Park Valley post office opened in 1879.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Park Valley.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Utah's counties, including Box Elder, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Park Valley - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>ZIP Codes have been created by the United States Postal Service (USPS) as a way of grouping addresses to make delivery more efficient. The boundaries of the ZIP Code can be changed, re-assigned, eliminated or overlapped with other ZIP Codes. So keep in mind that any given ZIP Code is only 'loosely' associated with a community (such as Park Valley). When looking for a ZIP Code, whether Park Valley or elsewhere, it's always best to check the website of the United States Postal Service (USPS).
<4>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/