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Welcome to Grape Grove ...

Grape Grove is located in Ray County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Grape Grove, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1838.

A typical abbreviation for Grape Grove: Grape Grv.

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

Communities Also Named Grape Grove ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Grape Grove - it's located in Ohio.

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

Adding Grape Grove to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Grape Grove post office opened in 1838.

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

For more details, see References and Mentions for Grape Grove.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Ray, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

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