North River, Missouri

North River is an unincorporated community in Marion County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

History

A post office called North River was established in 1870, and remained in operation until 1887.[2] The community took its name from the nearby North River.[3]

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gollark: * anyway
gollark: If you *do* go around using a definition which admits stars and everything else, it's basically meaningless, but ends up bringing all the weird things English ties to "life" and "organisms" along with it anywya.
gollark: Which are mostly for some specific technical context and make sense there. Because it's a hard to define word.
gollark: The broader issue is that when people say stuff like that they generally mean to sneak in a bunch of connotations which are dragged along with "organism" or "life".

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: North River, Missouri
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  3. "Marion County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 3, 2016.



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