Woodlandville is an unincorporated community 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]

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 September 4, 2016.
  4. ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 213.

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