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Welcome to Little Rock Mills ...

Little Rock Mills is located in Hickman County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Little Rock Mills, you might consider that their post office opened in 1878.

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

Little Rock Mills is 580 feet [177 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Code for Little Rock Mills: 931

Communities near Little Rock Mills ...

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

  • Dickson
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Greenfield Bend
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Greenfield Bend is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield Bend
    • Estimated population in 2014: 15,035 people
  • Fairview
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Sawdust
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Sawdust is located in Maury County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawdust
    • Estimated population in 2014: 7,053 people
  • White Bluff
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Centerville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Kingston Springs
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Loriland
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Loriland is located in Williamson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loriland
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,735 people
  • Burns
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Burns is located in Dickson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,550 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Burns <3>
  • Graytown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Graytown is located in Hickman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graytown
    • Estimated population in 2014: 1,528 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 Little Rock Mills. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Little Rock Mills.

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Little Rock Mills ...

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

Adding Little Rock Mills to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Little Rock Mills post office opened in 1878. The Little Rock Mills post office closed in 1911.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Little Rock Mills.

Footnotes ...

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