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Welcome to Gills Rock ...

Gills Rock is located in Door County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Gills Rock, you might consider that their post office opened in 1902.

Gills Rock is 600 feet [183 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Gills Rock lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Gills Rock, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Area Codes for Gills Rock: 920 & 274<3>

Communities near Gills Rock ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Gills Rock ...

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

Adding Gills Rock to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Gills Rock 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 Gills Rock was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Gills Rock post office opened in 1902. The Gills Rock post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Gills Rock.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Door, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Gills Rock - 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 920 code has been Overlayed with the 274 area code. New phone numbers in the Gills Rock area will be assigned with one of these codes: 920 or 274. As a result, placing a call in the Gills Rock area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>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/