Pleasant Gap, Missouri
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Pleasant Gap is an unincorporated community in southeastern Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route 0 approximately ten miles southeast of Butler.[1]
History
[edit]Pleasant Gap was laid out in about 1840.[2] It was so named from its scenic setting in a gap.[3] A post office called Pleasant Gap was established in 1840, and remained in operation until 1918.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gasetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed, 1998, p. 42 ISBN 0899332242
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pleasant Gap, Missouri
- ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named (in public domain). The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 208.
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 1, 2016.
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38°10′22″N 94°10′56″W / 38.17278°N 94.18222°W
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