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Welcome to Red Lick ...

Red Lick is located in Jefferson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Red Lick, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1874.

Red Lick is 280 feet [85 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Red Lick: 601 & 769<3>

Communities Also Named Red Lick ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Red Lick - it's located in Texas.

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

Communities near Red Lick ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Red Lick ...

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

Adding Red Lick to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Red Lick 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 Red Lick was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Red Lick post office opened in 1874.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Red Lick.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Jefferson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Red Lick - 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 601 code has been Overlayed with the 769 area code. New phone numbers in the Red Lick area will be assigned with one of these codes: 601 or 769. As a result, placing a call in the Red Lick 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>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.
<6>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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