Welcome to Woodford ...

Woodford is located in Clay County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Woodford, you might consider that their post office opened in 1844.

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

Area Codes for Woodford: 816 & 975<2>

Communities Also Named Woodford ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 16 communities that are also named Woodford - they are located in Alabama (2), California, Illinois, Maryland, North Carolina (2), Ohio (2), Oklahoma, Ontario, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin.

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

Adding Woodford to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Woodford 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 Woodford was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<3>

From that list, the Woodford post office opened in 1844.

We also found Woodford on a map titled William Bradley Map (1866).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Woodford.

Footnotes ...

<1>	If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Clay, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>	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 Woodford area will be assigned with one of these codes: 816 or 975. As a result, placing a call in the Woodford area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<3>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/