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Welcome to Cornish ...

Cornish is located in Lafayette County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cornish, you might consider that their post office opened in 1902.

Cornish is 340 feet [104 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Cornish: 662 & 471<3>

Communities Also Named Cornish ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 9 communities that are also named Cornish - they are located in Colorado, Maine (2), New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Utah.

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

Communities near Cornish ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Cornish ...

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

Adding Cornish to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cornish 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 (so far) for Cornish was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Cornish post office opened in 1902. The Cornish post office closed in 1922.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cornish.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Lafayette, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cornish - 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 662 code has been Overlayed with the 471 area code. New phone numbers in the Cornish area will be assigned with one of these codes: 662 or 471. As a result, placing a call in the Cornish 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/