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Welcome to Prairie Park ...

Prairie Park is located in Nodaway County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Prairie Park, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1862.

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

Area Code for Prairie Park: 660

Adding Prairie Park to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Prairie Park post office opened in 1862.

We also found Prairie Park in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Prairie Park.

Footnotes ...

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