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This is a list of telephone area codes in the state of Missouri. The area codes are allocated within the North American Numbering Plan (NANP). The two original area codes for Missouri in 1947 were 314 and 816. Area code 417 was split off from 816 in 1950, and the other area codes followed more than 40 years later, due to the proliferation of ...
Initially, area codes with the middle digit 0 were assigned to numbering plan areas that comprised an entire state or province, while jurisdictions with multiple numbering plan areas received area codes having 1 as the second digit. As network growth could not be predicted accurately over more than a few years, this pattern was abandoned by ...
Horton most likely had its start when the railroad was extended to that point. [3] The community was named in 1890, most likely after a railroad man. [4] A post office was established at Horton in 1891, and remained in operation until 1996. [5]
Canton's early history could well be called a tale of two cities. The village of Tully, founded in November, 1834, was just a mile north of fledgling Canton and had a slightly better area for steamboats to anchor. [7] Being the preferred spot to load and unload cargo, Tully slowed Canton's growth for the first two decades of its existence.
Horton Town is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [ 1 ] The community has the name of the Horton family, original owners of the site.
Horton was platted in 1883, and named after George Horton, a railroad official. [3] A variant name was "Cordz". [1] A post office called Cordz was established in 1886, and remained in operation until 1914. The Cordz name came about due to Henry V. C. Cordz, and his wife Nellie (Haaverson) Cordz, who served as postmistress. [4]
Horton is an Anglo-Saxon surname, deriving from the common English place-name Horton. It derives from Old English horu 'dirt' and tūn 'settlement, farm, estate', presumably meaning 'farm on muddy soil'.
They also serves all of southeastern Missouri (including the Missouri Bootheel area) and areas adjacent to the Mississippi River. 573 was created on January 7, 1996, in a split of area code 314, which was limited to the St. Louis metropolitan area in Missouri, and 235 was added on March 24, 2024 as part of an overlay complex.