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Welcome to Bluffton ...

Bluffton is located in Ray County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Bluffton, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1820.

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

Communities Also Named Bluffton ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Missouri communities named Bluffton: This one is located in Ray County and the other is located in Montgomery County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 16 communities that are also named Bluffton - they are located in Alabama, Alberta, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas (2), Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

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

Adding Bluffton to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Bluffton 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 Bluffton was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Bluffton post office opened in 1820.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Bluffton.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Ray, 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/