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Welcome to Holt ...So far, we found very little information about Holt. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Holt to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Holt, please Contact Us. Holt would have been located within present day Jasper County<2>. The location of Holt has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Holt, you might consider that their post office opened in 1860. While the community is gone, the present day location for Holt is 340 feet [104 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Holt was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Holt would have been located in the (601) and (769)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Holt ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 27 communities that are also named Holt - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (2), California, Florida, Georgia (2), Iowa, Kentucky (3), Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas (2), Utah (3) and Wisconsin. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Holt. Communities near Holt ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Holt.
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 Holt. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Holt. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Holt. 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 Holt. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Holt. See our Newspapers Page for Holt. Adding Holt to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Holt 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 Holt was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> For more details, see References and Mentions for Holt. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/ Footnotes ...
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