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Welcome to East Lexington ...

East Lexington is located in Rockbridge County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of East Lexington, you might consider that their post office opened in 1893.

A typical abbreviation for East Lexington: E. Lexington

East Lexington is 940 feet [287 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for East Lexington: 540 & 826<3>

Communities Also Named East Lexington ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named East Lexington - it's located in Massachusetts.

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

Communities near East Lexington ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for East Lexington ...

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

Adding East Lexington to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the East Lexington post office opened in 1893. The East Lexington post office closed in 1966.

For more details, see References and Mentions for East Lexington.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Rockbridge, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around East Lexington - 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 East Lexington area will be assigned with one of these codes: 540 or 826. As a result, placing a call in the East Lexington 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>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/