Welcome to Alto ...

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

We've added Alto to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Alto - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Alto, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Alto , we believe that it would have been located within present day Jasper County<2>.

Alto was settled in 1854.

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

The Area Codes where Alto was located: 601 & 769<3>

Communities Also Named Alto ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 18 communities that are also named Alto - they are located in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Dakota (2), Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Alto to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Alto was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

X2X - From that list, the Alto post office opened in 1888.

We also found Alto in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Alto.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/

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 Alto, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Jasper, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<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 601 code has been Overlayed with the 769 area code. New phone numbers in the Alto area will be assigned with one of these codes: 601 or 769. As a result, placing a call in the Alto area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/