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Welcome to Mink ...So far, we found very little information about Mink. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Mink to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mink, please Contact Us. Mink would have been located within present day Kanawha County<2>. The location of Mink has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Mink, you might consider that their post office opened in 1888. While the community is gone, the present day location for Mink is 680 feet [207 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Mink was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time Mink would have been located in the (304) and (681)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Mink ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 5 communities that are also named Mink - they are located in Alabama, Louisiana, Montana, Oregon and Texas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mink. Communities near Mink ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mink.
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 Mink. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mink. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mink. 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 Mink. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mink. See our Newspapers Page for Mink. Adding Mink to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Mink 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 Mink was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Mink in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Mink. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Kanawha County: www.kanawha.us/ The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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