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Welcome to Asherville ...

Asherville is located in the Bootheel of Missouri.

Asherville is located in Stoddard County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Asherville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1872.

Asherville is 440 feet [134 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Asherville: 573 & 235<3>

Communities Also Named Asherville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 2 communities that are also named Asherville - they are located in Indiana and Kansas.

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

Communities near Asherville ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Asherville.

  • Poplar Bluff
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Dexter
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Bernie
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Bloomfield
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Puxico
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Essex
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Essex is located in Stoddard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 447 people
  • Fisk
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Dudley
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Dudley is located in Stoddard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 222 people
  • Zalma
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Zalma is located in Bollinger County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zalma
    • Estimated population in 2016: 89 people
  • Wappapello
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Asherville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Asherville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Asherville. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Asherville.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Asherville. See our Newspapers Page for Asherville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Asherville ...

Looking for more information about Asherville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Asherville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Asherville.

Adding Asherville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Asherville in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Asherville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Asherville post office opened in 1872. The Asherville post office closed in 1927.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Asherville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Stoddard, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Asherville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Asherville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Asherville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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