Tulip, Missouri

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Tulip is an unincorporated community in northwest Audrain and southwest Monroe counties, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community is on Monroe county road 92. Long Branch flows past approximately one mile west and north of the site. Moberly is approximately 15 miles to the north-northwest in Randolph County and Centralia is eight miles south in northeast Boone County, Missouri. [2]

History

A post office was established at Tulip in 1879, and remained in operation until 1907. [3] The community was so named by a settler who was fond of tulips. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tulip, Missouri
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 31, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 10 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Monroe County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016.

Coordinates: 39°20′34″N92°09′26″W / 39.34278°N 92.15722°W / 39.34278; -92.15722


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