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History · Eastabuchie

Half of Eastabuchie’s homes were built after 1995

Most of Eastabuchie was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1995. Below: maps from 1965 on.

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What stands out about Eastabuchie’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Eastabuchie are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Eastabuchie came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Eastabuchie.

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The name Eastabuchie is derived from a native Choctaw language term for the Leaf River.

Eastabuchie is located on the Norfolk Southern Railway and was incorporated on February 19, 1890. It was unincorporated at an unknown date.

It was first named as a CDP in the 2020 Census which listed a population of 187.

The small, rural town is home to the studios of television station WDAM, the area's NBC and ABC affiliate.

In 1912, according to Frank Leslie's Weekly, several Confederate veterans lost their lives in a train wreck in Eastabuchie.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Eastabuchie, 1883 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1883Post officeThe Estabutchie post office opens
  3. 1885Born hereJohn R. Baylis is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1951Post officeThe Estabutchie post office closes
  6. 1951Post officeThe Eastabutchie post office opens
  7. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Eastabuchie on the map, 1965 to 1982

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

Eastabuchie on the 1965 USGS mapEastabuchie on the 1982 USGS map1965Eastabuchie 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 Eastabuchie.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

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

Estabutchie
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

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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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.