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Welcome to Pleasantville ...

Pleasantville is located in Sullivan County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Pleasantville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1861.

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

Area Code for Pleasantville: 660

Communities Also Named Pleasantville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 28 communities that are also named Pleasantville - they are located in Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana (2), Iowa, Maine, Maryland (3), New Jersey (3), New York (2), Newfoundland and Labrador, North Carolina (2), Nova Scotia, Ohio (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania (4), Tennessee, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Pleasantville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Pleasantville post office opened in 1861.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Pleasantville.

Footnotes ...

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