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Welcome to Healing Springs ...

Healing Springs is located in Bath County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Healing Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1855.

A typical abbreviation for Healing Springs: Healing Spgs. (or less commonly used: Healing Spngs. or Healing Sprngs.)

Healing Springs is 2,230 feet [680 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Healing Springs is about ½ mile above sea level.

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

Area Codes for Healing Springs: 540 & 826<3>

Communities Also Named Healing Springs ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Healing Springs - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, North Carolina and South Carolina.

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

Communities near Healing Springs ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Healing Springs ...

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

Adding Healing Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Healing Springs post office opened in 1855. The Healing Springs post office closed in 1973.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Healing Springs.

Footnotes ...

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