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Welcome to Sni Mills ...

Sni Mills is located in Jackson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Sni Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1874.

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

Sni Mills is 840 feet [256 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Sni Mills: 816 & 975<3>

Communities near Sni Mills ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Sni Mills ...

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

Adding Sni Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Sni Mills post office opened in 1874. The Sni Mills post office closed in 1902.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Jackson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Sni Mills - 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 816 code has been Overlayed with the 975 area code. New phone numbers in the Sni Mills area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Sni Mills 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/