Gravel Point, Missouri

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Gravel Point is an extinct town in southwestern Texas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community and Gravel Point School is on Gravel Point Road and adjacent to a small tributary of West Piney Creek. It was approximately eight miles north-northwest of Cabool. [2]

A post office called Gravel Point was established in 1871, the name was changed to Gravelpoint in 1895, and the post office closed in 1905. [3] The community was so named on account of gravel deposits near the original town site. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gravel Point (historical)
  2. ↑ Cabool NM, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 (1985 rev.)
  3. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Texas County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.

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