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Welcome to Custer ...

Custer is located in Dent County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Custer, you might consider that their post office opened in 1882.

Custer is 1,240 feet [378 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Custer: 573 & 235<3>

Communities Also Named Custer ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 22 communities that are also named Custer - they are located in Arkansas, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma (2), Pennsylvania (2), South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington (2) and Wisconsin.

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

Communities near Custer ...

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

  • Salem
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Licking
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Bunker
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Darien
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Darien is located in Dent County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darien
  • Jadwin
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jadwin is located in Dent County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jadwin
  • Jack
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jack is located in Dent County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jack
  • Akers
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Akers is located in Shannon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akers
  • Howes
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Howes is located in Dent County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howes
  • Coulstone
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Coulstone is located in Dent County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coulstone
  • Gila
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Gila is located in Dent County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Custer ...

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

Adding Custer to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Custer 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 Custer was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Custer post office opened in 1882. The Custer post office closed in 1942.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Custer.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Dent, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Custer - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 Custer area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Custer area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/