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Welcome to Maple ...

Maple is located in the Missouri Ozarks.

Maple is located in Dallas County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Maple, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1903.

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

Area Code for Maple: 417

Communities Also Named Maple ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 26 communities that are also named Maple - they are located in Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan (3), Minnesota (2), New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Texas (3), Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Maple to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Maple post office opened in 1903.

We also found Maple on a map (with an unknown title) dated 1904.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Maple.

Footnotes ...

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