Mayfield is an unincorporated community in the central part of Scopus Township in Bollinger County, Missouri, United States, approximately 4.5 miles west of the Cape Girardeau County line.A Directory of Towns, Villages, and Hamlets Past and Present of Bollinger County, Missouri Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 57-8
The community was located along a small tributary of the Little Whitewater Creek and Mayfield Creek flows past approximately three-quarters of a mile to the south.Scopus, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980 (1983 rev.)
Mayfield had been named by W.H. Mayfield, who had established the post office in 1886.State Historical Society of Missouri: Bollinger County Place Names, 1928-1945 http://shs.umsystem.edu/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_bollinger.html A number of post offices came and went over the years: 1882–1891, 1899–1909, 1912–1955.Post Offices in Bollinger County, MO
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