Hematite, Missouri

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Hematite is an unincorporated community in eastern Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on Missouri Route P approximately seven miles northeast of De Soto. [2]

Hematite was platted in 1861. [3] The community was named for nearby deposits of hematite. [4] A post office called Hematite has been in operation since 1858, [5] and the United Nuclear Corporation's reactor fuel production plant operated in the area from 1957 until 2001. [6]

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References

  1. "Hematite, Missouri". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, pp. 48-49 ISBN   0899332242
  3. "Jefferson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp.  180.
  5. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
  6. Thorsen, Leah (November 24, 2012). "Cleanup under way at shuttered Hematite nuclear fuel factory". STLtoday.com. Retrieved October 13, 2020.

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