Welcome to May Apple ...

May Apple is located in the Missouri Ozarks.

May Apple is located in Laclede County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of May Apple, you might consider that their post office opened in 1857.

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

Area Code for May Apple: 417

Communities Also Named May Apple ...

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

Adding May Apple to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the May Apple post office opened in 1857.

For more details, see References and Mentions for May Apple.

Footnotes ...

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