Possum Walk, Missouri

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Possum Walk is an extinct community in northwestern Nodaway County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]

The community is on the west side of the Nodaway River floodplain two miles southeast of the community of Elmo. Burlington Junction is approximately 3.5 miles to the southeast and Clearmont is three miles to the east-northeast. [2]

Possum Walk is an invented name. [3] A variant name was "LaMar Station after the LaMar family that operated the Possum Walk Hotel that is now a national landmark.". [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Possum Walk
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 15, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ "Nodaway County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016.

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