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Welcome to Port Royal ...

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

We've added Port Royal to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Port Royal, please Contact Us.


Port Royal would have been located within present day Franklin County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Port Royal, you might consider that their post office opened in 1889.

A typical abbreviation for Port Royal: Prt. Royal

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

The Area Code where Port Royal was located: 636

Communities Also Named Port Royal ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 13 communities that are also named Port Royal - they are located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia (2), Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

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

Communities near Port Royal ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Port Royal to Our Gazetteer ...

The earliest source (so far) we've referenced which mentioned Port Royal was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Port Royal post office opened in 1889. The Port Royal post office closed in 1900.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Port Royal.

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 Port Royal, 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 Franklin, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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/