Welcome to Wilks ...

Wilks is located in the Bootheel of Missouri.

Wilks is located in Pemiscot County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Wilks, you might consider that their post office opened in 1906.

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

Area Codes for Wilks: 573 & 235<2>

Communities Also Named Wilks ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Wilks - it's located in Arkansas.

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

Adding Wilks to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Wilks 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 Wilks was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Wilks post office opened in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Wilks.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Pemiscot, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	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 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Wilks area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Wilks area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/