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Welcome to Bankston ...

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

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

Bankston would have been located within present day Choctaw County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bankston, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

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

The Area Codes where Bankston was located: 662 & 471<3>

Communities Also Named Bankston ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Bankston - they are located in Alabama, Georgia and Iowa.

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

Communities near Bankston ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Bankston to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bankston in the FIPS-55 file. For more information, see the Referenced FIPS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Bankston was in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bankston.

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 Bankston, 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 Choctaw, 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 662 code has been Overlayed with the 471 area code. New phone numbers in the Bankston area will be assigned with one of these codes: 662 or 471. As a result, placing a call in the Bankston area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
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