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Welcome to Baxterville ...

Baxterville is located in Lamar County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Baxterville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1900.

Baxterville is 410 feet [125 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Baxterville: 601 & 769<3>

Communities Also Named Baxterville ...

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

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

Communities near Baxterville ...

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

  • Columbia
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Poplarville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Purvis
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Lumberton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Varnado
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Varnado is located in Washington Parish (LA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varnado
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 332 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Varnado <4>
  • Angie
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Angie is located in Washington Parish (LA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angie
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 246 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Angie <4>
  • Pinebur
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Pinebur is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinebur
  • Wells Town
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Wells Town is located in Lamar County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells Town
  • Hillsdale
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Hillsdale is located in Pearl River County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsdale
  • Twin
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Twin is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Baxterville ...

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

Adding Baxterville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Baxterville post office opened in 1900. The Baxterville post office closed in 1957.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Baxterville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Lamar, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Baxterville - 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 601 code has been Overlayed with the 769 area code. New phone numbers in the Baxterville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 601 or 769. As a result, placing a call in the Baxterville 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/