Woodlandville, Missouri
Woodlandville is an unincorporated community in western Boone County, Missouri, United States.[1] The community is on Missouri Route J about six miles south of Harrisburg and 5.5 miles north of I-70 and Rocheport.[2] There is only a church there, and a large water tower, along with a few homes.
History
[edit]A post office called Woodlandville was established in 1872, and remained in operation until 1932.[3] Woodlandville was so named because the land was covered with wood, and in contradistinction to prairie.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodlandville, Missouri
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 30 and 37, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
- ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 213.
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Footnotes | ‡a small part of Centralia is in Audrain County | |
39°03′44″N 92°29′02″W / 39.06222°N 92.48389°W
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