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Welcome to Vining Mills ...

So far, we found very little information about Vining Mills. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Vining Mills to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Vining Mills, please Contact Us.

Vining Mills would have been located within present day Lincoln Parish<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Vining Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

A typical abbreviation for Vining Mills: Vining Mls. (or less commonly used: Vining Mlls.)

While the community is gone, the present day location for Vining Mills is 110 feet [34 m] above sea level.<3>.

Time Zone: The area where Vining Mills was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The Area Codes where Vining Mills was located: 318 & 457<4>

Communities near Vining Mills ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Vining Mills.

  • Ruston
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Grambling
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Homer
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Homer is located in Claiborne Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homer
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,789 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Homer <5>
  • Arcadia
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Bernice
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Choudrant
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Dubach
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Simsboro
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Vienna
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Vienna is located in Lincoln Parish
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vienna
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 365 people
  • Athens
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)

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

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

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

Adding Vining Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Vining Mills 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 (so far) for Vining Mills was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Vining Mills post office opened in 1884. The Vining Mills post office closed in 1908.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Vining Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Vining Mills, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Louisiana's parishes, including Lincoln, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Vining Mills - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 318 code has been Overlayed with the 457 area code. New phone numbers in the Vining Mills area will be assigned with one of these codes: 318 or 457. As a result, placing a call in the Vining Mills area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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/