Mountain Dale, Missouri

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Mountain Dale
Unincorporated community
Mountain Dale, Missouri
Coordinates: 37°11′20″N92°45′15″W / 37.18889°N 92.75417°W / 37.18889; -92.75417
CountryUnited States
State Missouri
County Webster

Mountain Dale is an unincorporated community in southeastern Webster County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community is located on Missouri Route C, approximately 2.5 miles north of Seymour and just south of the James River headwaters. The Mountain Dale cemetery lies about one-quarter mile to the west. [2] Owen Field airstrip and the community of Waldo lie about three-quarters of a mile to the east, along Missouri Route V. [3]

The community took its name from a former school built about 1865. [4] The school was located near a mountain and a dale, hence the name, Mountain Dale. [4]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mountain Dale, Missouri
  2. ↑ Seymour, Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982
  3. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 53, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  4. 1 2 "Webster County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
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