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Welcome to Jamestown ...

Jamestown is located in Saint Louis County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Jamestown, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1820.

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

Communities Also Named Jamestown ...

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

Beyond Missouri, there are 68 communities that are also named Jamestown - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas (2), California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia (4), Idaho (2), Illinois (3), Indiana (3), Iowa (2), Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan (2), Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada (2), New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio (5), Oklahoma, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (3), Rhode Island, South Carolina (3), Tennessee (4), Texas (4), Utah (2), Virginia (2), Washington, West Virginia (2) and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Jamestown to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Jamestown post office opened in 1820.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Jamestown.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Jamestown. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Saint Louis County: www.co.st-louis.mo.us/

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

Footnotes ...

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









 

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