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Welcome to Mena ...So far, we found very little information about Mena. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Mena to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mena, please Contact Us. Mena was located in the Piney Woods (East Texas). Mena would have been located within present day Red River County<2>. The location of Mena has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Mena, you might consider that their post office opened in 1901. While the community is gone, the present day location for Mena is 380 feet [116 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Mena was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time If Mena still existed, it would have been in the (903) area code. Communities Also Named Mena ...Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Mena - it's located in Arkansas. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mena. Communities near Mena ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mena.
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 Mena. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mena. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mena. 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 Mena. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mena. See our Newspapers Page for Mena. Adding Mena to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Mena 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 Mena was on a map titled Map of Texas (from Rand McNally, 1911). We also found Mena in the book titled .<6> From that list, the Mena post office opened in 1901. For more details, see References and Mentions for Mena. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/ Footnotes ...
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