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Welcome to Hugginsville ...

Hugginsville is located in Gentry County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Hugginsville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1855.

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

Area Code for Hugginsville: 660

Adding Hugginsville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Hugginsville post office opened in 1855.

We also found Hugginsville in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Hugginsville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Gentry, 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/