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Welcome to Dana ...

So far, we found very little information about Dana. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Dana to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Dana - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Dana, please Contact Us.


While we don't have the exact location of Dana , we believe that it would have been located within present day Bates County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dana, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1881.

Time Zone: The area where Dana was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

The community of Dana was previously named West Point.

Communities Also Named Dana ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 14 communities that are also named Dana - they are located in California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan (2), North Carolina, North Dakota, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Wyoming.

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

Adding Dana to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Dana was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Dana post office opened in 1881.

We also found Dana in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dana.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Dana, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Bates, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/