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Welcome to Little Cypress ...

Little Cypress is located in Marshall County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Little Cypress, you might consider that their post office opened in 1876.

Little Cypress is 350 feet [107 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Little Cypress: 270 & 364<3>

Communities Also Named Little Cypress ...

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

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

Websites for Little Cypress ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.marshallcounty.net/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Little Cypress, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Little Cypress ...

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

  • Paducah
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Metropolis
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Benton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Calvert City
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Calvert City is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvert City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,509 people
    • Calvert City has also been known as:
    • Calvert
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Calvert City <4>
  • Brookport
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Kuttawa
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Hardin
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Lone Oak
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Lone Oak is located in McCracken County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Oak
  • Grand Rivers
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Smithland
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Little Cypress ...

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

Adding Little Cypress to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Little Cypress post office opened in 1876. The Little Cypress post office closed in 1935.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Kentucky's counties, including Marshall, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Little Cypress - 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 270 code has been Overlayed with the 364 area code. New phone numbers in the Little Cypress area will be assigned with one of these codes: 270 or 364. As a result, placing a call in the Little Cypress 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/