Kimberly, Missouri

Kimberly is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

History

Kimberly had is start in 1895 as a mining community.[2] A post office called Kimberly was established in 1900, and remained in operation until 1905.[3] The community takes its name from the mining center of Kimberley, South Africa.[2]

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gollark: I see.
gollark: It's not better built in. Printer functionality is notoriously unreliable and an external RPi thing will generally work much more sanely.
gollark: Much less horrible, generally, to just hook up an RPi to it for print handling.
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References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kimberly, Missouri
  2. "Randolph County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 12 December 2016.



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