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Welcome to Columbia Furnace ...

Columbia Furnace is located in Shenandoah County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Columbia Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1851.

Columbia Furnace is 920 feet [280 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Columbia Furnace lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Columbia Furnace: 540 & 826<3>

Communities near Columbia Furnace ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Columbia Furnace ...

Looking for more information about Columbia Furnace? 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 Columbia Furnace, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Columbia Furnace.

Adding Columbia Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Columbia Furnace 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 Columbia Furnace was in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

We also found Columbia Furnace in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Columbia Furnace.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Shenandoah, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Columbia Furnace - 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 540 code has been Overlayed with the 826 area code. New phone numbers in the Columbia Furnace area will be assigned with one of these codes: 540 or 826. As a result, placing a call in the Columbia Furnace area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.