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Welcome to Hyacinth ...

Hyacinth is located in Northumberland County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hyacinth, you might consider that their post office opened in 1898.

Hyacinth is 90 feet [27 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Hyacinth: 804 & 686<3>

Communities Also Named Hyacinth ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Hyacinth - it's located in Kansas.

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

Communities near Hyacinth ...

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

  • Tappahannock
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Warsaw
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Montross
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Bundick
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Bundick is located in Northumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bundick
  • Rainswood
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Rainswood is located in Northumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainswood
  • Tucker Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Tucker Hill is located in Westmoreland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucker Hill
  • Coan
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Coan is located in Northumberland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coan
  • Emmerton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Emmerton is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmerton
  • Farnham
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Farnham is located in Richmond County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farnham
  • Heathsville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Hyacinth ...

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

Adding Hyacinth to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Hyacinth post office opened in 1898. The Hyacinth post office closed in 1993.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hyacinth.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Northumberland, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Hyacinth - 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 804 code has been Overlayed with the 686 area code. New phone numbers in the Hyacinth area will be assigned with one of these codes: 804 or 686. As a result, placing a call in the Hyacinth 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/