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Welcome to Jacinto ...

Jacinto is located in Alcorn County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Jacinto, you might consider that their post office opened in 1840.

Jacinto is 560 feet [171 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Jacinto: 662 & 471<3>

Communities Also Named Jacinto ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 3 communities that are also named Jacinto - they are located in Arkansas, California and Nebraska.

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

Communities near Jacinto ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Jacinto ...

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

Adding Jacinto to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Jacinto post office opened in 1840. The Jacinto post office closed in 1909.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Jacinto.

Footnotes ...

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