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Welcome to Scottsville ...

Scottsville is located in Sullivan County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Scottsville, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1849.

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

Area Code for Scottsville: 660

Communities Also Named Scottsville ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 20 communities that are also named Scottsville - they are located in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Illinois (2), Indiana, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ontario, Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Texas, Vermont and Virginia.

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

Adding Scottsville to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Scottsville post office opened in 1849.

We also found Scottsville in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Scottsville.

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/