Welcome to Prairie ...Prairie is located in Monroe County<1>. While we don't have a date for the founding of Prairie, you might consider that their post office opened in 1895. Prairie is 290 feet [88 m] above sea level.<2>. Time Zone: Prairie lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time Area Code for Prairie: 662 Communities Also Named Prairie ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Prairie - they are located in Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Washington. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Prairie. Communities near Prairie ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Prairie.
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 Prairie. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Prairie. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Prairie. 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 Prairie. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Prairie. See our Newspapers Page for Prairie. TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Prairie ...Looking for more information about Prairie? 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 Prairie, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Prairie. Adding Prairie to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Prairie 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 Prairie was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5> We also found Prairie on a map titled Rand McNally Map of Mississippi (1911). For more details, see References and Mentions for Prairie. Footnotes ...
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