RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Missouri >> Shannon County >> RatIndex...

Welcome to Rat ...

Rat is located in the Missouri Ozarks.

Rat is located in Shannon County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rat, you might consider that their post office opened in 1898.

Rat is 950 feet [290 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Rat: 573 & 235<3>

Communities Also Named Rat ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Rat - it's located in Alabama.

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

Communities near Rat ...

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

  • Ellington
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Eminence
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Bunker
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Centerville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Gila
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Gila is located in Dent County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila
  • Corridon
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Corridon is located in Reynolds County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corridon
  • Reynolds
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Reynolds is located in Reynolds County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds
  • Bee Fork
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Bee Fork is located in Reynolds County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Fork
  • Greeley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Greeley is located in Reynolds County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greeley
  • Fruit City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Fruit City is located in Reynolds County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruit City

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Rat ...

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

Adding Rat to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Rat post office opened in 1898. The Rat post office closed in 1954.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Rat.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Shannon, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rat - 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 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Rat area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Rat 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/