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Welcome to Laws Hill ...

Laws Hill is located in Marshall County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Laws Hill, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1875.

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

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

Area Code for Laws Hill: 662

Communities Also Named Laws Hill ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Laws Hill - it's located in Tennessee.

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

Communities near Laws Hill ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Laws Hill ...

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

Adding Laws Hill to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Laws Hill post office opened in 1875.

We also found Laws Hill in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Laws Hill.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Marshall, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Laws Hill - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/