Welcome to Melvin ...

So far, we found very little information about Melvin. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Melvin to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Melvin - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Melvin, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Melvin , we believe that it would have been located within present day Benton County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Melvin, you might consider that their post office opened in 1896.

Time Zone: The area where Melvin was located is in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Communities Also Named Melvin ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 16 communities that are also named Melvin - they are located in Alabama (2), California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania and Texas.

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

Adding Melvin to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Melvin was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Melvin post office opened in 1896.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Melvin.

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Melvin, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Benton, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/