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Welcome to Sherwood ...

Sherwood is located in Jasper County<1>.

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

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

Area Code for Sherwood: 417

Communities Also Named Sherwood ...

While we believe that this Sherwood is located in Jasper County, we know of another 2 Missouri communities named Sherwood. Those communities are located in the following counties: Barton and Clark County.

Beyond Missouri, there are 54 communities that are also named Sherwood - they are located in Alabama (3), Alberta, Arizona, Arkansas, California (2), Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia (2), Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Manitoba, Maryland (2), Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina (2), North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ohio (3), Oklahoma, Ontario (2), Oregon, Pennsylvania (2), Prince Edward Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas (2), Virginia (2), Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin (2).

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

Adding Sherwood to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Sherwood post office opened in 1858.

We also found Sherwood on a map (with an unknown title) dated 1861.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Sherwood.

Footnotes ...

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