Maywood, Missouri
Maywood is an unincorporated community in southern Lewis County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located on Missouri Route V just north of the Lewis-Marion county line, approximately eleven miles northwest of Palmyra and ten miles west of Quincy, Illinois.[2] The community is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.
A post office called Maywood has been in operation since 1872.[3] It is unclear why the name Maywood was applied to this community.[4]
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Maywood, Missouri
- Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st edition, 1998, p. 25 ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
- "Lewis County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
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