Oak Vale, Mississippi

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Oak Vale, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
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Oak Vale
Coordinates: 31°26′19″N89°57′52″W / 31.43861°N 89.96444°W / 31.43861; -89.96444
Country United States
State Mississippi
Counties Jefferson Davis, Lawrence
Elevation
207 ft (63 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code
39656
Area code(s) 601 & 769
GNIS feature ID675104 [1]

Oak Vale is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Davis and Lawrence counties, Mississippi, United States. [1] Its ZIP code is 39656. [2] Oak Vale is located on the former Gulf and Ship Island Railroad (and sold to the Illinois Central Railroad before being abandoned) and was once home to a bank and general store. [3] [4] A post office operated under the name Oakvale from 1856 to 1869 and began operating under the name Oak Vale in 1873. [5]

Oak Vale is referenced in the title of Natasha Trethewey's poem Signs, Oakvale, Mississippi, 1941. [6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Oak Vale, Mississippi". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ↑ United States Postal Service (2012). "USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code" . Retrieved February 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 351.
  4. ↑ Howe, Tony. "Oakvale, Mississippi". Mississippi Rails. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
  5. ↑ "Lawrence County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved February 13, 2022.
  6. ↑ Trethewey, Natasha (2018). Monument: Poems, New and Selected. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 19. ISBN   9781328508690.


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