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Vanzant is an unincorporated community in northeastern Douglas County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Route 95 at the intersection with state route W, approximately one mile south of Route 76 and thirteen miles south of Mountain Grove. The community of Drury is about three miles south on Route 95. Vanzant post office was established in 1892 and was assigned a zip code of 65768. The community was named after an early settler.
Brushyknob is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States. The community is located on Route 76, approximately fourteen miles east of Ava. The old townsite is located along Route 76 on Tarbutton Creek, about 1.5 miles east of Bryant Creek at an elevation of 920 feet. The Brushyknob church and cemetery is on a ridge flat about 3500 feet to the south-southeast and some 200 feet higher in elevation. The historic Brushyknob school is 850 feet south of the church.
Taylor is an unincorporated community in northeastern Marion County, Missouri, United States. Taylor is located at the northern junction of U.S. Routes 24 and 61, approximately five miles west of Quincy, Illinois and eight miles north of Palmyra. The community is part of the Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Buckhart is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States. The townsite is at an elevation of 876 feet (267 m) located on Brush Creek east of Missouri Route 95 on State Route CC. It is south of Drury and northeast of Gentryville.
Fielden is an unincorporated community in south central Douglas County, Missouri, United States. Fielden is located on the floodplain of Fox Creek along County Road 14-343, south of Missouri Route 14 and west of Gentryville. The townsite is at an elevation of 778 ft (237 m).
Larissa is an historic town located along Hunter Creek in Douglas County, Missouri, United States. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. Larissa was located on the north part of the floodplain of Hunter Creek, along county road VV-210, at an elevation of 935 feet. The location is approximately one mile upstream (northwest) of the Crystal Springs fish hatchery.
Merritt is an unincorporated community in southwestern Douglas County, Missouri, United States. Merritt is located west of Goodhope on Missouri Route T in the Little Beaver Creek valley.
Prior is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States. The community is located on Missouri Route 95, just north of the intersection with Missouri Route 76 and 2.5 miles north of Vanzant. The community sits on a ridge between Fox Creek to the west and Clifty Creek to the east, at an elevation of 1,243 ft (379 m).
Roy is an unincorporated community in southwestern Douglas County, Missouri, United States. Roy is located on Missouri Route 76, south of the Goodhope junction on Missouri Route T. The village site is at an elevation of 1,263 ft (385 m) about 1.5 mile west of the Beaver Creek valley.
Horton is an unincorporated community in northwest Howell County, in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, United States. The community is located within the Mark Twain National Forest, west of Missouri Route AP and approximately one-half mile east of the Douglas - Howell county line. The Noblett Lake recreation area on Noblett Creek is just to the northwest in Douglas County.
Talmage is an unincorporated community in Wright County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community was located just west of Missouri Route E, approximately five miles due east of Hartville and two miles north of the community of Owens. It is on a ridge between Clark and Whetstone creeks at an elevation of 1266 feet.
Fay is an unincorporated community in southeastern Ozark County, in the Ozarks of south-central Missouri, United States. The community is located along Missouri Route J, approximately 2.5 miles south of U.S. Route 160. The Fay Cemetery lies just west of Route J and north of the Lick Creek - Sweeten Creek junction.
Luna is an extinct town in Ozark County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. The community is on a ridge between Bryant Creek to the east and Pine Creek to the west and is located on Missouri Route FF. Zanoni, on Missouri Route 181, lies approximately two miles to the northwest. The community church is one and one-half miles west on Caney Creek and Missouri Route AA. The Pine Creek confluence with Bryant Creek is one and one-quarter miles to the south, at the north end of Norfork Lake.
Hawkeye is an unincorporated community in the northwest corner of Pulaski County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The Pulaski-Camden county line is one-half mile to the west and the Pulaski-Miller county line is one mile to the north. Missouri Route U passes through the community. The community is on a ridge at an elevation of 1106 feet at the head of the north flowing Barren Fork, the northeast flowing Clinkingbeard Creek to the east and tributaries of west flowing Deane Creek to the south and west.
Nance is an extinct town in eastern Taney County, in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place. The townsite sits above the east bank of the west fork of Big Creek about one mile north of U.S. Route 160 and about 1.7 miles west of the Taney - Ozark county line. The site is at an elevation of 876 feet.
Ongo is an unincorporated community in northwestern Douglas County, Missouri, United States. Ongo is located on Missouri Route UU, on the north bank of Swan Creek. The Douglas-Christian county line is approximately one mile to the west. Missouri Route 14 is about two miles to the north and Honey Branch Cave, about one mile north.
Hest is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.
Breeden Creek is a stream in western Douglas County in the Ozarks of south central Missouri. The stream is a tributary to Little Beaver Creek.
Olathia is a community in north-central Douglas County, Missouri United States. It is located approximately six miles southeast of Mansfield along Missouri Route U and is nine miles northeast of Ava. It is on a ridge between Puncheon Camp Creek one-half mile to the northeast and Bryant Creek one and a quarter mile to the southwest.
Biggs was an unincorporated community in northeast Douglas County, Missouri, United States.
References
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pansy, Missouri
- 1 2 Bradlyville, MO, 1:48000 Scale Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1937
- 1 2 Douglas County Place Names, 1928-1945 The State Historical Society of Missouri
- ↑ Postal History Douglas County, Missouri
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