Welcome to Dents Settlement ...

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

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

While we don't have the exact location of Dents Settlement <3>, we believe that it would have been located within present day Saint Francois County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Dents Settlement, you might consider that their post office opened in 1840.

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

The Area Codes where Dents Settlement was located: 573 & 235<4>

Adding Dents Settlement to Our Gazetteer ...

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

X2X - From that list, the Dents Settlement post office opened in 1840.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Dents Settlement.

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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 Dents Settlement, 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 Saint Francois, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Dents Settlement may originally have been Dent's Settlement. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Dents Settlement might be written as Dent Settlement. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Dents Settlement.
<4>	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 Dents Settlement area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Dents Settlement area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/