Napier is an extinct hamlet in Holt County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] [2]
Napier is an extinct hamlet in Holt County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] [2]
Napier was established as a station on January 1, 1882, [3] and named for a railroad promoter. [4] In 1887, the St. Joseph and Nebraska Railroad was built from Napier west to the Missouri River across from Rulo, Nebraska. [3] A post office called Banks was established in 1884 [5] later called Napier in 1889. [6] [7] and remained in operation until 1943. [8] In the early 20th Century, Napier boasted a hotel, an opera house, and a prominent train station in Holt County. On September 2, 1974, the train station was abandoned. [3] The BNSF railroad still runs trains daily through Napier on the Napier Subdivision. [9]
Napier is located in the easternmost sections of Minton Township. [10] It was the junction of two Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railways: the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, which traveled west beginning at Napier, and the Kansas City, St. Joseph, and Council Bluffs Railroad, which traveled northwesterly/southeasterly through the town. [11] The Davis Creek Ditch passes by east of the town. It is at the southwest corner of Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge.
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