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History · Bogue Chitto

1 of Bogue Chitto’s places is on the National Register

Its Register listing is the Foxx-Cox House. Most of Bogue Chitto was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: maps from 1972 on.

1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Bogue Chitto’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Bogue Chitto came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Bogue Chitto.

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Bogue Chitto takes its name from the nearby Bogue Chitto River, the name of which is a Choctaw word, Bok Chito, meaning "big river". Originally before Lincoln County was formed, the north part of the community was in Lawrence County and the southern portion in Pike County. There is a plat of the Pike portion filed in the courthouse with the name Atopisaw. The Atopisaw plat also has the name Boguechitto in the notes on the plat. It is likely the community was known as Atopisaw prior to the arrival of the railroad and it is believed that the railroad used the name Bogue Chitto for its depot. It was not uncommon for a depot name to be different from the town name. By 1866 the spelling Bogue Chitto was common for the community instead of Boguechitto.

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Timeline

Bogue Chitto, 1822 to 1972

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1822Post officeThe Bogue Chito post office opens
  3. 1835Post officeThe Bogue Chito post office closes
  4. 1870Post officeThe Bogue Chito post office opens
  5. 1895BuiltFoxx-Cox House is built
  6. 20th century
  7. 1972On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Bogue Chitto on the map, 1972 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Bogue Chitto. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Bogue Chitto on the 1972 USGS mapBogue Chitto on the 1984 USGS mapBogue Chitto on the 1994 USGS map1972Bogue Chitto sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Bogue Chitto.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Bogue Chitto

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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Foxx-Cox House
Foxx-Cox House, built 1895
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

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Foxx-Cox HouseBuilding · listed 1998

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Bogue Chitto

Nobody well known was born in Bogue Chitto itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Britney SpearsAmerican singer, songwriter, actress and model · b. 1981
Robert JohnsonAmerican blues singer and guitarist · b. 1911
Brandy NorwoodAmerican singer, songwriter and actress · b. 1979
Jamie Lynn SpearsAmerican actress and singer · b. 1991
Bo DiddleyAmerican guitarist · b. 1928
Ray JAmerican R&B singer and actor · b. 1981
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Another post office, Bogue Chito, opened and closed inside today’s town.

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1cemetery inside Bogue Chitto
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Bogue Chitto’s history

What is on the National Register in Bogue Chitto?

One place: the Foxx-Cox House (listed 1998).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.