Welcome to Defiance ...

Defiance is located in Worth County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Defiance, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1876.

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

The telephone area code for Defiance: (660)

Communities Also Named Defiance ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Missouri communities named Defiance: This one is located in Worth County and the other is located in Saint Charles County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 13 communities that are also named Defiance - they are located in Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas (2), Kentucky (2), Michigan, New Mexico (2), North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

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

Adding Defiance to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Defiance 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 Defiance was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

From that list, the Defiance post office opened in 1876.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Defiance.

Off-the-Road Links ...

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The official website for State of Missouri: https://www.mo.gov/