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Welcome to Hookston ...

Hookston is located in Lauderdale County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hookston, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

Hookston is 360 feet [110 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Hookston: 601 & 769<3>

Communities Also Named Hookston ...

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

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

Communities near Hookston ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Hookston ...

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

Adding Hookston to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Hookston post office opened in 1884. The Hookston post office closed in 1906.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hookston.

Footnotes ...

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