Welcome to Bethany ...

Bethany is located in Clay County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bethany, you might consider that their post office opened in 1844.

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

Area Codes for Bethany: 816 & 975<2>

Communities Also Named Bethany ...

While we believe that this Bethany is located in Clay County, we know of another 2 Missouri communities named Bethany. Those communities are located in the following counties: Dunklin and Harrison County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 45 communities that are also named Bethany - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia (6), Illinois, Indiana (3), Kentucky (3), Louisiana, Manitoba, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina (2), Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario (3), Oregon (2), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina (2), Tennessee (2), Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.

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

Adding Bethany to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bethany 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 Bethany was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Bethany post office opened in 1844.

We also found Bethany in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bethany.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Clay, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	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 816 code has been Overlayed with the 975 area code. New phone numbers in the Bethany area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Bethany area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/