Welcome to Bridgewater ...
Bridgewater is located in Nodaway County<1>.
While we don't have a date for the founding of Bridgewater, you might consider that their post office opened in 1871.
Time Zone: Bridgewater lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time
Area Code for Bridgewater: 660
Communities Also Named Bridgewater ...
Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 26 communities that are also named Bridgewater - they are located in Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Nova Scotia, Ohio (3), Ontario (2), Pennsylvania (3), South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont and Virginia.
For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Bridgewater.
Adding Bridgewater to Our Gazetteer ...
We originally found mention of Bridgewater 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 Bridgewater was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>
X2X - From that list, the Bridgewater post office opened in 1871.
For more details, see References and Mentions for Bridgewater.
Off-the-Road Links ...
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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 Nodaway, 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/ |