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Welcome to Ingrams Mill ...

Ingrams Mill is located in DeSoto County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Ingrams Mill, you might consider that their post office opened in 1879.

A typical abbreviation for Ingrams Mill: Ingrams Ml. (or less commonly used: Ingrams Mll.)

See our Genealogy Helper Page for Ingrams Mill for more information about variations on the name of Ingrams Mill.

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

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

Area Codes for Ingrams Mill: 662 & 471<3>

Communities near Ingrams Mill ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Ingrams Mill ...

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

Adding Ingrams Mill to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Ingrams Mill post office opened in 1879. The Ingrams Mill post office closed in 1806.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Ingrams Mill.

Footnotes ...

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