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Welcome to Grand Mound ...

Grand Mound is located in Thurston County<1>.

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

Grand Mound is 160 feet [49 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Grand Mound lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Grand Mound: 360 & 564<3>

Communities Also Named Grand Mound ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Grand Mound - it's located in Iowa.

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

Communities near Grand Mound ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Grand Mound ...

Looking for more information about Grand Mound? 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.

In addition to the Tourism page for Grand Mound, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Grand Mound.

Adding Grand Mound to Our Gazetteer ...

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

X2X - From that list, the Grand Mound post office opened in 1854.

We also found Grand Mound in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Grand Mound.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Grand Mound. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Thurston County: www.co.thurston.wa.us/

The official website for State of Washington: https://wa.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Washington's counties, including Thurston, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Grand Mound - 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 360 code has been Overlayed with the 564 area code. New phone numbers in the Grand Mound area will be assigned with one of these codes: 360 or 564. As a result, placing a call in the Grand Mound 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 their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/




 

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