Maywood is an unincorporated community in southern Lewis County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located on Missouri Route V just north of the Lewis-Marion county line, approximately eleven miles northwest of Palmyra and ten miles west of Quincy, Illinois.[2] The community is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The ZIP Code for Maywood is 63454.[3]

A post office called Maywood has been in operation since 1872.[4] It is unclear why the name Maywood was applied to this community.[5]

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Maywood, Missouri
  2. ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st edition, 1998, p. 25 ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. ^ "Maywood ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
  4. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 26, 2016.
  5. ^ "Lewis County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 26, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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