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Welcome to Little Oak ...

Little Oak is located in Pike County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Little Oak, you might consider that their post office opened in 1856.

Little Oak is 430 feet [131 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Note: If you travel east from Little Oak (for example, toward Fort Gaines (GA)), you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Area Codes for Little Oak: 334 & 483<3>

Communities Also Named Little Oak ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Little Oak - it's located in Kansas.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Little Oak.

Communities near Little Oak ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Little Oak.

  • Troy
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Troy is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,762 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Troy <4>
  • Luverne
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Brundidge
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Brantley
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Rutledge
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Rutledge is located in Crenshaw County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutledge
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 449 people
  • Goshen
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Glenwood
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Banks
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Petrey
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Petrey is located in Crenshaw County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petrey
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
  • Henderson
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Henderson is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henderson

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Little Oak ...

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

Adding Little Oak to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Little Oak 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 Little Oak was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Little Oak post office opened in 1856. The Little Oak post office closed in 1903.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Little Oak.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Alabama's counties, including Pike, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Little Oak - 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 334 code has been Overlayed with the 483 area code. New phone numbers in the Little Oak area will be assigned with one of these codes: 334 or 483. As a result, placing a call in the Little Oak area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/