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Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri
Prior
is an
unincorporated community
in
Douglas County
,
Missouri
, United States.
[1]
The community is located on
Missouri Route 95
, just north of the intersection with
Missouri Route 76
and 2.5 miles north of
Vanzant
.
[2]
[3]
The community sits on a ridge between
Fox Creek
to the west and
Clifty Creek
to the east, at an elevation of 1,243 ft (379 m).
[3]
[1]
History
[
edit
]
A post office called Prior was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1939.
[4]
The community was named after an early settler.
[5]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
a
b
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Prior, Missouri
- ^
Mountain Grove South 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951
- ^
a
b
Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,
DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 63,
ISBN
0-89933-224-2
- ^
"Post Offices"
. Jim Forte Postal History
. Retrieved
September 28,
2016
.
- ^
"Douglas County Place Names, 1928?1945 (archived)"
. The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016
. Retrieved
September 28,
2016
.
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