Woodlandville, Missouri

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Woodlandville is an unincorporated rural hamlet in western Boone County, Missouri, United States. [1] The community is on Missouri Route J about six miles south of Harrisburg and 5.5 miles north of I-70 and Rocheport. [2] There is only a church there, and a large water tower, along with a few homes.

History

A post office called Woodlandville was established in 1872, and remained in operation until 1932. [3] Woodlandville was so named because the land was covered with wood, and in contradistinction to prairie. [4]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Woodlandville, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 30 and 37, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp.  213.

Coordinates: 39°03′44″N92°29′02″W / 39.06222°N 92.48389°W / 39.06222; -92.48389