Unincorporated community in Missouri, United States
Samos is an unincorporated community in Mississippi County , in the U.S. state of Missouri .[1] The community was at the intersection of County roads 326 and 321 approximately 4.5 miles southeast of Charleston and 3.5 miles southwest of Wyatt .[2] It was on the St. Louis Southwestern Railway line.[3]
History
A post office called Samos was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1938.[4] The name is a transfer from the island of Samos , in Greece.[5]
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Samos, Missouri
^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.69 ISBN 0899332242
^ Charleston, MO-IL, 15 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1954
^ "Post Offices" . Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 6, 2016 .
^ "Mississippi County Place Names, 1928–1945" . The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 6, 2016 .
36°52′05″N 89°16′35″W / 36.86806°N 89.27639°W / 36.86806; -89.27639