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Welcome to Minaville ...

Minaville is located in Clay County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Minaville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1881.

Minaville is 740 feet [226 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Minaville: 816 & 975<3>

Communities Also Named Minaville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Minaville - it's located in New York.

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

Communities near Minaville ...

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

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 Minaville. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Minaville.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Minaville. 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 Minaville.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Minaville ...

Looking for more information about Minaville? 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 Minaville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Minaville.

Adding Minaville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Minaville 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 Minaville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Minaville post office opened in 1881. The Minaville post office closed in 1909.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Minaville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Clay, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Minaville - 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 Minaville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Minaville 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/