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Welcome to Yellow Sulphur Springs ...

Yellow Sulphur Springs is located in Montgomery County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Yellow Sulphur Springs, you might consider that their post office opened in 1854.

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

Yellow Sulphur Springs is 1,880 feet [573 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Yellow Sulphur Springs: 540 & 826<3>

Websites for Yellow Sulphur Springs ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.montgomerycc.org/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Yellow Sulphur Springs, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Yellow Sulphur Springs ...

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

  • Blacksburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Christiansburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Radford
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Dublin
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Pembroke
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Floyd
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • McBryde Village
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • McBryde Village is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McBryde Village
  • Montgomery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Montgomery is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery
  • Oak Grove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Oak Grove is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove
  • Sundance Village
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Sundance Village is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sundance Village

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Yellow Sulphur Springs ...

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

Adding Yellow Sulphur Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Yellow Sulphur Springs post office opened in 1854. The Yellow Sulphur Springs post office closed in 1923.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Yellow Sulphur Springs.

Footnotes ...

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