Welcome to Circleville ...

Circleville is located in Cape Girardeau County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Circleville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1855.

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

Area Codes for Circleville: 573 & 235<2>

Communities Also Named Circleville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 12 communities that are also named Circleville - they are located in Illinois, Indiana (2), Kansas, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas (2), Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.

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

Adding Circleville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Circleville post office opened in 1855.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Circleville.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Cape Girardeau, 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 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Circleville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Circleville 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/