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Welcome to Riffe ...So far, we found very little information about Riffe. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Riffe to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Riffe, please Contact Us. Riffe would have been located within present day Lewis County<2>. The location of Riffe has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Riffe, you might consider that their post office opened in 1898. While the community is gone, the present day location for Riffe is 780 feet [238 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Riffe was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time If Riffe still existed, it would have been in the (360) area code. Communities Also Named Riffe ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Riffe - it's located in West Virginia. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Riffe. Communities near Riffe ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Riffe.
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 Riffe. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Riffe. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Riffe. 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 Riffe. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Riffe. See our Newspapers Page for Riffe. Adding Riffe to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Riffe 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 Riffe was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> For more details, see References and Mentions for Riffe. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Lewis County: www.co.lewis.wa.us/ The official website for State of Washington: https://access.wa.gov/ Footnotes ...
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