Ocobla, Mississippi

Ocobla is an unincorporated community in Neshoba County, in the U.S. state of Mississippi.[1]

History

The community takes its name from Ocobla Creek, which flows near the site.[2] A post office called Ocobla was established in 1886, and remained in operation until 1903.[3]

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gollark: A byte, i.e. "foolish ASCII or extended ASCII character", should just be `byte` or `u8` or something.
gollark: Unicode should be the default, and something should not be named `char` if it cannot actually hold a character.
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References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Ocobla, Mississippi
  2. Baca, Keith A. (2007). Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6.
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 20 August 2019.



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