Welcome to Hero ...

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hero, you might consider that their post office opened in 1899.

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

Area Codes for Hero: 601 & 769<2>

Communities Also Named Hero ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Hero - they are located in Florida and Pennsylvania.

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

Adding Hero to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Hero post office opened in 1899.

We also found Hero on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hero.

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<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 601 code has been Overlayed with the 769 area code. New phone numbers in the Hero area will be assigned with one of these codes: 601 or 769. As a result, placing a call in the Hero 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/