Pleasant Gap, Missouri

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Pleasant Gap is an unincorporated community in southeastern Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route 0 approximately ten miles southeast of Butler. [1]

History

Pleasant Gap was laid out in about 1840. [2] It was so named from its scenic setting in a gap. [3] A post office called Pleasant Gap was established in 1840, and remained in operation until 1918. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gasetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed, 1998, p. 42 ISBN   0899332242
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pleasant Gap, Missouri
  3. ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named (in public domain). The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 208.
  4. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 1, 2016.

38°10′22″N94°10′56″W / 38.17278°N 94.18222°W / 38.17278; -94.18222

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