Stringtown, Butler County, Missouri

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Stringtown, Butler County, Missouri
Unincorporated community
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Stringtown
Coordinates: 36°45′10″N90°34′58″W / 36.75278°N 90.58278°W / 36.75278; -90.58278
Country United States
State Missouri
County Butler
Elevation
486 ft (148 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 573
GNIS feature ID752399 [1]

Stringtown is an unincorporated community in Butler County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]

The community is on Missouri Route M one mile east of Beaverdam Creek. [2]

According to tradition, Stringtown was named for the "string" or line of customers to a local bootleg liquor outlet. [3]

On April 3, 2014, an F0 tornado struck Stringtown. A mobile home had about half of its roof removed and a few tree limbs were broken. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Stringtown, Butler County, Missouri
  2. ↑ Stringtown, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980
  3. ↑ "Butler County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ↑ Missouri Event Report: EF0 Tornado (Report). National Climatic Data Center. 2014. Retrieved May 15, 2016.{{cite report}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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