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Welcome to Buckhart ...

Buckhart is located in the Missouri Ozarks.

Buckhart is located in Douglas County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Buckhart, you might consider that their post office opened in 1884.

Buckhart is 870 feet [265 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Code for Buckhart: 417

Communities Also Named Buckhart ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Buckhart - it's located in Illinois.

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

Communities near Buckhart ...

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

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 Buckhart. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Buckhart.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Buckhart. 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 Buckhart.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Buckhart ...

Looking for more information about Buckhart? 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 Buckhart, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Buckhart.

Adding Buckhart to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Buckhart 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 Buckhart was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Buckhart post office opened in 1884. The Buckhart post office closed in 1957.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Buckhart.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Douglas, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Buckhart - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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/