Oak Vale, Mississippi
Unincorporated community
Oak Vale is located in Mississippi
Oak Vale
Oak Vale
Oak Vale is located in the United States
Oak Vale
Oak Vale
Coordinates: 31°26′19″N 89°57′52″W / 31.43861°N 89.96444°W / 31.43861; -89.96444
CountryUnited States
StateMississippi
CountiesJefferson Davis, Lawrence
Elevation
207 ft (63 m)
Time zoneUTC-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. ^ a b "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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