Yucatan, Missouri

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Yucatan, Missouri
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Yucatan, Missouri
Coordinates: 38°51′16″N91°45′02″W / 38.85444°N 91.75056°W / 38.85444; -91.75056
Country United States
State Missouri
County Callaway
Elevation
[1]
817 ft (249 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 573
GNIS feature ID741377 [1]

Yucatan is an unincorporated community in eastern Callaway County, Missouri, United States. [1] The community is on Missouri Route D about four miles south of I-70. Lake Lochaweeno is about two miles to the southwest. [2]

A post office called Yucatan was established in 1892, and remained in operation until 1908. [3] The community was named after the nearby Yucatan Baptist Church. [4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Yucatan, Missouri". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 38, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  4. "Callaway County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.


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