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Welcome to Standing Pine ...

Standing Pine is located in Leake County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Standing Pine, you might consider that their post office opened in 1855.

Standing Pine is 430 feet [131 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Standing Pine: 601 & 769<3>

Websites for Standing Pine ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.leakems.com/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Standing Pine, the following might be of interest:

Communities near Standing Pine ...

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

  • Philadelphia
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Carthage
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Union
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Walnut Grove
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Sebastopol
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Lena
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Tuscola
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Tuscola is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuscola
  • Dowdville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Dowdville is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowdville
  • High Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • High Hill is located in Leake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Hill
  • Laurel Hill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Laurel Hill is located in Neshoba County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel 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 Standing Pine. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Standing Pine.

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Standing Pine ...

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

Adding Standing Pine to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Standing Pine post office opened in 1855. The Standing Pine post office closed in 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Standing Pine.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Leake, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Standing Pine - 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 Standing Pine area will be assigned with one of these codes: 601 or 769. As a result, placing a call in the Standing Pine 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/