Welcome to Locust ...

While we don't have a date for the founding of Locust, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858.

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

Area Codes for Locust: 816 & 975<2>

Communities Also Named Locust ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Missouri communities named Locust: This one is located in DeKalb County and the other is located in Ozark County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 12 communities that are also named Locust - they are located in California, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky (2), New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.

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

Adding Locust to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Locust 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 Locust was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Locust post office opened in 1858.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Locust.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including DeKalb, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	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 Locust area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Locust area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/