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Welcome to Melvin Mills ...

Melvin Mills is located in Merrimack County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Melvin Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1883.

A typical abbreviation for Melvin Mills: Melvin Mls. (or less commonly used: Melvin Mlls.)

Melvin Mills is 640 feet [195 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Melvin Mills lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Melvin Mills: 603

Communities near Melvin Mills ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Melvin Mills.

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Melvin Mills ...

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

Adding Melvin Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Melvin Mills 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 Melvin Mills was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Melvin Mills post office opened in 1883. The Melvin Mills post office closed in 1955.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Melvin Mills.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of New Hampshire's counties, including Merrimack, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Melvin Mills - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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/