Welcome to Cypress ...

Cypress is located in the Bootheel of Missouri.

Cypress is located in Scott County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cypress, you might consider that their post office opened in 1843.

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

Area Codes for Cypress: 573 & 235<2>

Communities Also Named Cypress ...

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

Beyond Missouri, there are 23 communities that are also named Cypress - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (2), California, Delaware, Florida (2), Illinois, Indiana (2), Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana (2), Mississippi, Montana, South Carolina, Tennessee (2), Texas (2) and Washington.

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

Adding Cypress to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Cypress post office opened in 1843.

We also found Cypress in the book titled U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cypress.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Scott, 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 Cypress area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Cypress 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/