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Welcome to Holmesville ...

Holmesville is located in Pike County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Holmesville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1846.

Holmesville is 290 feet [88 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Holmesville: 601 & 769<3>

Communities Also Named Holmesville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 14 communities that are also named Holmesville - they are located in Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana (2), Nebraska, New Brunswick, New York, North Carolina, Ohio (3), Ontario and South Carolina.

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

Communities near Holmesville ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Holmesville ...

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

Adding Holmesville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Holmesville 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 for Holmesville was in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

We also found Holmesville in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Holmesville.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Holmesville. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Pike County: www.co.pike.ms.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Pike, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Holmesville - 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 Holmesville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 601 or 769. As a result, placing a call in the Holmesville 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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