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Census Data for Wells Town

As far as we can tell, Wells Town<1> has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.

While we don't have census information for Wells Town, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:

Lamar County ...

Wells Town is located in Lamar County<3>.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Lamar County.

Miscellaneous Information for Wells Town ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Lamar County or the community of Wells Town:

  • The GNIS Codes ...
    • The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Wells Town:
    • GNIS ID for Wells Town: 695118
    • GNIS ID for Lamar County: 695760
    • GNIS ID for State of Mississippi: 1779790
  • Misc. Census Codes ...
    • Wells Town is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #6 (the East South-Central Division).

For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Wells Town.

Footnotes ...

<1>It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Wells Town may originally have been Well's Town. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Wells Town might be written as Well Town. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Wells Town.
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<3>If you're interested in how the shape of Mississippi's counties, including Lamar, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.