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Welcome to Maywood ...

Maywood is located in Fayette County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Maywood, you might consider that their post office opened in 1875.

Maywood is 3,120 feet [951 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Maywood is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: Maywood lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Maywood: 304 & 681<3>

Communities Also Named Maywood ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 23 communities that are also named Maywood - they are located in California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas (2), Kentucky, Michigan (3), Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri (2), Nebraska, New Jersey, New York (2), North Carolina, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington.

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

Communities near Maywood ...

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Maywood ...

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

Adding Maywood to Our Gazetteer ...

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

From that list, the Maywood post office opened in 1875. The Maywood post office closed in 1914.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Maywood.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Fayette, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Maywood - 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 304 code has been Overlayed with the 681 area code. New phone numbers in the Maywood area will be assigned with one of these codes: 304 or 681. As a result, placing a call in the Maywood 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/