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Welcome to Little Blue ...

Little Blue is located in Jackson County<1>.

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

Little Blue is 780 feet [238 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Little Blue: 816 & 975<3>

Communities near Little Blue ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Little Blue.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Little Blue. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Little Blue.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Little Blue. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Little Blue.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Blue. See our Newspapers Page for Little Blue.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Little Blue ...

Looking for more information about Little Blue? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Little Blue, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Little Blue.

Adding Little Blue to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Little Blue in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Little Blue was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Little Blue post office opened in 1838. The Little Blue post office closed in 1943.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Little Blue.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Jackson, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Little Blue - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>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 816 code has been Overlayed with the 975 area code. New phone numbers in the Little Blue area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Little Blue area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

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