The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusMiston is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dyer County, Tennessee, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. It is in the northwest part of the county, along Tennessee State Route 103, which leads east 3 miles (5 km) to Bogota and west the same distance to Tennessee State Route 181, less than 2 miles (3 km) east of the Mississippi River. Dyersburg, the county seat, is 13 miles (21 km) southeast of Miston. A post office operated in Miston from 1909 to 1985.
Half of its homes were built before 1980.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Miston yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Miston’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Miston’s history is told.
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Miston, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Miston is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Miston has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Finley, 7.9 miles away.
Miston and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.