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Welcome to Rural Home ...

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

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

Rural Home would have been located within present day Cass County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Rural Home, you might consider that their post office opened in 1858.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Rural Home is 850 feet [259 m] above sea level.<3>.

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

The Area Codes where Rural Home was located: 816 & 975<4>

Communities Also Named Rural Home ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Rural Home - it's located in Virginia.

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

Communities near Rural Home ...

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

  • Belton
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Belton is also located in Cass County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 23,793 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Belton <5>
  • Raymore
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Harrisonville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Pleasant Hill
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Greenwood
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Peculiar
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Louisburg
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Garden City
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Adrian
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Lake Winnebago
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Lake Winnebago is also located in Cass County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Winnebago
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,370 people

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

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

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

Adding Rural Home to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Rural Home 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 (so far) for Rural Home was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Rural Home post office opened in 1858. The Rural Home post office closed in 1859.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Rural Home.

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 Rural Home, 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 Cass, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rural Home - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>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 Rural Home area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Rural Home area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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/