Calhoun County, MS
MSGenWeb Project

Submitted List of Community and Area Names updated Nov. 24, 2001

(Sources listed at bottom)

December 25, 2006 – This list is updated again with additional information.

Banner (1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11)

Benela (extinct) (1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 11)

Bently/Bentley (1, 2, 3, 4, 11)

Bethlehem (extinct) (1)

Bias (10)

Big Creek (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11)

Blue (2)

Bounds (1, 3, 4, 10, 11)

Bradford’s Chapel (4, 5)

Bruce (1, 3, 4, 11)

Burkett (now known as Calhoun City) (3, 4, 6)

Busyton (extinct) (1, 3, 11)

Calhoun City (originally known as Burkett) (1, 3, 4, 6)

Carrs Precinct (extinct) (1)

Cherry Hill (extinct, later known as Elzy) (2, 3, 4, 10)

Coles Creek (2, 10)

Concord (extinct) (1, 4)

Cotton Valley (extinct) (1)

Dentontown (1, 3, 4, 5, 10)

Derma (1, 3, 4, 10, 11)

Ellard (1, 3, 4, 10, 11)

Ellzey (extinct, originally known as Cherry Hill) (1, 3, 4, 11)

Erin (extinct) (1, 4)

Hardin Town (extinct, also known as Hopewell) (3, 4, 10, 11)

Hartford (extinct by 1886) also known as Oldtown (1, 3, 4, 5, 8)

Hollis (extinct) (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11)

Hopewell (extinct, also known as Hardin Town) (1, 2, 3, 4, 10)

Lamars Box (extinct) (1)

Lone Oak [Reynolds Community] (5)

Loyd/Lloyd (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11)

Mabry (extinct) (3, 11)

Matthews (2)

McKenzie (5)

Money (extinct) (1)

Mount Zion (extinct) (1)

New Liberty (1, 4)

Oak Grove (extinct) (1)

Oldtown [see Hartford]  (9, 10)

Orrsville (now known as Pittsboro) (3, 4, 5)

Partee (1, 3, 4, 11)

Pittman (1, 3, 4, 11)

(Pitts) (10)

Pittsboro (originally known as Orrsville) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10)

Pleasant Hill [mail to Pleasant Hill area found marked as Reagan Post Office]  (4, )

Pleasant Ridge (Chickenbone) (5)

Poplar Springs (extinct) (1)

Reagan (extinct) [mail to Pleasant Hill area found marked as Reagan Post Office]  (1, 2, 4)

Reid (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11)

Retreat (extinct) (1, 3, 4, 11)

Reynolds (Lone Oak) (5)

Sabougla (extinct, also known as Davis Town) (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11)

Sarepta (extinct) (1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11)

Shepherd (1, 3, 4, 11)

Short Branch (4,)

Skuna (1, 3, 4, 11)

Slate Springs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10)

Sugg (2)

Ticky Bin (now known as Vardaman) (3, 4)

Timberville (originally known as Ticky Bin, now known as Vardaman) (3, 4, 5, 7)

Trusty (extinct) (1, 3, 4, 11)

Vance (extinct) (1, 3, 11)

Vardaman (originally known as Ticky Bin then Timberville) (1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11)

Wardwell (4, 10)
 
 

Sources of Information

(1) USGS GNIS

(2) 1895 US Atlas

(3) Hometown Mississippi, by James F. Brieger, 1980, 1997  [Permission granted by phone to use excerpts 12/21/2006.

(4)  General Physical Location on Map found at:  Township & Range webpage.

(5)  1926 Newspaper Articles referring to Community or Town.

(6)  1906 Calhoun City Incorporated

(7)  Timberville Becomes Vardaman.

(8)  1920 Oldtown Remembered

(9)  Good Tom Moorman Recalls

(10) 1902 Newspaper & Pension Roll Post Offices

(11)  Webpage of Excerpts from Hometown Mississippi by James F. Brieger, 1980, 1997