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Moniteau County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 15,473. Its county seat is California. The county was organized February 14, 1845 and named for the Moniteau Creek. 'Moniteau' is a French spelling of Manitou, Algonquian for the Great Spirit.
High Point is an unincorporated community in southern Moniteau County, Missouri, United States. It is located ten miles south of California, approximately one mile west of Route 87 on Missouri Route C.
McGirk is an unincorporated community in eastern Moniteau County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately five miles east of California on old U.S. Route 50.
Pisgah is an unincorporated community in Cooper County, Missouri, United States. The community is located about two miles west of Pisgah Creek on Missouri Route O and eleven miles north-northwest of California. Bunceton is about eight miles to the west on Missouri Route J.
Enon is an unincorporated community in Moniteau County, Missouri, United States.
Moniteau Creek is a stream in Randolph, Howard and Boone counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. The headwaters of the stream are southwest of Moberly in Randolph County. The stream flows south passing into Howard County in the Rudolph Bennett Conservation Area. The stream flows south-southwest along the eastern part of the county passing under Missouri Route 124 and becomes the boundary between Howard and Boone counties before passing under U. S. Route 40 and entering the Missouri River just south of Rocheport.
Wilton is an unincorporated community in southwest Boone County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on the northeast bank of the Missouri River across from the Marion Bottoms Conservation Area. Ashland lies approximately six miles to the northeast on Missouri Route M and Sandy Hook lies across the Missouri three miles to the west in Moniteau County. The lone business in Wilton is the Riverview Store, which serves the local community and users on the Katy Trail.
Moniteau Creek is a stream in Cooper, Moniteau and Cole counties in central Missouri. It is a tributary of the Missouri River. The stream headwaters are in western Moniteau County just west of Tipton. The stream flows north into Cooper County then turns east and flows through the southeastern part of the county and re-enters Moniteau County. The stream continues meandering east passing under Missouri Route 87 south of Jamestown and enters the Missouri River floodplain in the Marion Bottoms Conservation Area between Sandy Hook to the north and Marion to the south. The confluence with the Missouri River floodplain lies in the northern tip of Cole County.
Overton is an unincorporated community in northeast Cooper County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is adjacent to the south edge of the Missouri River floodplain. Missouri Route 98 passes through the community and I-70 passes approximately 1/2 mile to the south. Boonville is eight miles to the west and Wooldridge is four miles to the southeast adjacent to the Cooper-Moniteau county line.
Bacon is an unincorporated community in northeast Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Moniteau Creek approximately seven miles northeast of California.
Cedron is an unincorporated community in northern Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community was on a ridge above Schaaf Creek approximately 2.5 miles southeast of Prairie Home in adjacent Cooper County. It lies within the current Prairie Home Conservation Area.
Corticelli is an unincorporated community in Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Kliever is an unincorporated community in eastern Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The primary road which passes through Kliever is Missouri Route 87. The community is about five miles northeast of California and five miles south of Jamestown.
Renfro is an unincorporated community in Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Sandy Hook is an unincorporated community in Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on the southwest bank of the Missouri River floodplain. It lies on Missouri Route 179 between Jamestown to the northwest and Marion to the southeast in Cole County.
Harrison Township is an inactive township in Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Linn Township is an inactive township in Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Moreau Township is an inactive township in Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Walker Township is an inactive township in Moniteau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Freedom is an unincorporated community in Osage County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The village lies on Missouri Route N, approximately one mile north of U.S. Route 50 and two miles north of the Gasconade River.
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Marion, Missouri
- ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 37, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ↑ Plat Book of Cole County, Missouri, Rockford IL: W W Hixson & Company, 1930, p.2
- ↑ "Cole County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project". publications.newberry.org. Archived from the original on 2017-04-13.
- ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 279.
- ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
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