Welcome to Avoca ...
So far, we found very little information about Avoca. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Avoca to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Avoca - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Avoca, please Contact Us.
While we don't have the exact location of Avoca , we believe that it would have been located within present day Jefferson County<2>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Avoca, you might consider that their post office opened in 1840.
Time Zone: The area where Avoca was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Avoca would have been located in the (636) area code.
Communities Also Named Avoca ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 25 communities that are also named Avoca - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (4), Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Avoca.
Adding Avoca to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Avoca 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 Avoca was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>
From that list, the Avoca post office opened in 1840.
We also found Avoca in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).
For more details, see References and Mentions for Avoca.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Jefferson County: www.jeffcomo.org/
The official website for State of Missouri: https://www.mo.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Avoca, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Jefferson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/ |