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Welcome to Lynwood ...So far, we found very little information about Lynwood. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Lynwood to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lynwood, please Contact Us. Lynwood would have been located within present day Rankin County<2>. The location of Lynwood has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Lynwood, you might get a feel for it by knowing that during our research the earliest mention that we found (so far) was in a book dated 1895. While the community is gone, the present day location for Lynwood is 530 feet [162 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Lynwood was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time If Lynwood still existed, it would have been in the (601) & (769)<5> area codes. Websites for Lynwood ...Chamber of Commerce: www.rankinchamber.com/ Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Lynwood, the following might be of interest: Communities Also Named Lynwood ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Lynwood - they are located in California, Florida, Illinois (2), Maryland, Minnesota, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina (2) and Virginia (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lynwood. Communities near Lynwood ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Lynwood.
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 Lynwood. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Lynwood. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Lynwood. 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 Lynwood. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Lynwood. See our Newspapers Page for Lynwood. Adding Lynwood to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Lynwood in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Lynwood was in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). We also found Lynwood on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Lynwood. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Rankin County: www.rankincounty.org/ The official website for State of Mississippi: https://www.ms.gov/ Footnotes ...
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