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Welcome to Longtown ...

Longtown is located in Panola County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Longtown, you might consider that their post office opened in 1850.

Longtown is 350 feet [107 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Longtown: 662 & 471<3>

Communities Also Named Longtown ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 8 communities that are also named Longtown - they are located in Alabama, Missouri, North Carolina (2), Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee (2).

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

Communities near Longtown ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Longtown ...

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

Adding Longtown to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Longtown post office opened in 1850. The Longtown post office closed in 1909.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Longtown.

Footnotes ...

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