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Welcome to Curve ...

Curve is located in Lauderdale County<1>.

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

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

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

Note: If you leave Curve and travel south, you will leave Central Time and cross into the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT).

Area Code for Curve: 731

Communities Also Named Curve ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Curve - it's located in Virginia.

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

Websites for Curve ...

Chamber of Commerce:   www.laudcc.com/

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

Communities near Curve ...

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

  • Mengelwood
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Mengelwood is located in Dyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mengelwood
    • Estimated population in 2014: 656,861 people
  • Dyersburg
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Elizabeth
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Elizabeth is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabeth
    • Estimated population in 2014: 14,271 people
  • Brownsville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Covington
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Ripley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Ripley is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,624 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ripley <3>
  • Daniels Point Landing
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Daniels Point Landing is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daniels Point Landing
    • Estimated population in 2014: 2,874 people
  • Alamo
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Alamo is located in Crockett County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,260 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alamo <3>
  • Halls
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Halls is located in Lauderdale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halls
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,041 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Halls <3>
  • Bruceville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Bruceville is located in Dyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruceville
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,453 people

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Curve ...

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

Adding Curve to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Curve post office opened in 1883. The Curve post office closed in 1944.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Curve.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Tennessee's counties, including Lauderdale, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Curve - 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/