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Welcome to Stony Point ...

Stony Point is located in Jackson County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Stony Point, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1851.

A typical abbreviation for Stony Point: Stony Pt.

Time Zone: Stony Point lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The area code for Stony Point: (816)

Communities Also Named Stony Point ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 28 communities that are also named Stony Point - they are located in Arkansas (2), California, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan (3), New York (2), North Carolina (2), Ohio (2), Oklahoma (2), Pennsylvania (6), South Carolina, Tennessee (3) and Virginia.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Stony Point.

Adding Stony Point to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Stony Point in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Stony Point was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Stony Point post office opened in 1851.

We also found Stony Point in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Stony Point.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Stony Point. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Jackson County: www.co.jackson.mo.us/

The official website for State of Missouri: https://www.mo.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Jackson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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