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Welcome to Port Crescent ...

So far, we found very little information about Port Crescent. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Port Crescent to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Port Crescent, please Contact Us.

Port Crescent would have been located within present day Clallam County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Port Crescent, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1889.

A typical abbreviation for Port Crescent: Prt. Crescent

While the community is gone, the present day location for Port Crescent is 30 feet [9 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Port Crescent was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Port Crescent was located: 360 & 564<4>

Communities Also Named Port Crescent ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Port Crescent - it's located in Michigan.

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

Communities near Port Crescent ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Port Crescent to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Port Crescent in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Port Crescent was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<8>

X2X - From that list, the Port Crescent post office opened in 1889.

We also found Port Crescent in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Port Crescent.

The official website for Clallam County: www.clallam.net/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Port Crescent, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Washington's counties, including Clallam, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Port Crescent - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 Port Crescent area will be assigned with one of these codes: 360 or 564. As a result, placing a call in the Port Crescent area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<7>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<8>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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