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Welcome to Grape Island ...Grape Island is located in Pleasants County<1>. The location of Grape Island has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<2> While we don't have a date for the founding of Grape Island, you might consider that their post office opened in 1827. A typical abbreviation for Grape Island: Grape Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.) Grape Island is 630 feet [192 m] above sea level.<3>. Time Zone: Grape Island lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Telephone area codes for Grape Island: (304) & (681)<4> Communities near Grape Island ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Grape Island.
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 Grape Island. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Grape Island. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Grape Island. 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 Grape Island. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Grape Island. See our Newspapers Page for Grape Island. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Grape Island ...Looking for more information about Grape Island? 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 Grape Island, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Grape Island. Adding Grape Island to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Grape Island 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 Grape Island was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6> We also found Grape Island in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870). For more details, see References and Mentions for Grape Island. Off-the-Road Links ...Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Grape Island. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page. The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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