Starlanding, Missouri | |
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 Location of Perry County, Missouri | |
| Coordinates: 37°42′33″N89°35′07″W / 37.70917°N 89.58528°W Coordinates: 37°42′33″N89°35′07″W / 37.70917°N 89.58528°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| County | Perry |
| Township | Brazeau |
| Elevation | 364 ft (111 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP code | 63775 |
| Area code(s) | 573 |
| FIPS code | 29-70440 [1] |
| GNIS feature ID | 741285 [1] |
Starlanding was an unincorporated community in Brazeau Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States. [2]
Brazeau is one of the eight townships located in Perry County, Missouri, in the United States of America.
Perry County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 18,971. Its county seat is Perryville. The county was officially organized on November 16, 1820 from Ste. Genevieve County and was named after Oliver Hazard Perry, a naval hero of the War of 1812.
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the Union. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City. The state is the 21st-most extensive in area. In the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center of the state into the Mississippi River, which makes up Missouri's eastern border.
Starlanding was situated in the northern part of Brazeau Township in the eastern part of Perry County, along the Mississippi River at 364 ft. above sea level. [3] The community was originally known as Star Landing, and was founded as a riverboat landing. Today, nothing remains of the town. [4]
The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. Its source is Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota and it flows generally south for 2,320 miles (3,730 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts of 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces between the Rocky and Appalachian mountains. The main stem is entirely within the United States; the total drainage basin is 1,151,000 sq mi (2,980,000 km2), of which only about one percent is in Canada. The Mississippi ranks as the fourth-longest and fifteenth-largest river by discharge in the world. The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
