Simcoe, Missouri

Simcoe (also spelled Simco) is an unincorporated community in northeastern McDonald County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] Simcoe is located along Missouri Route 76 between Longview and Bethlehem.[2]

History

A post office called Simcoe was established in 1893, and remained in operation until 1909.[3] According to tradition, the community took its name from a local cooperative of the same name.[4]

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gollark: I have absolutely no idea where the packets are going, or indeed if they are going anywhere.
gollark: This is very annoying. I'm trying to make a (mostly pointless, yes) IPv6 multicast chat thing, and after struggling with the mysterious errors from the socket syscalls, got it to bind properly (I think?) so that `socat - "udp6-sendto:[ff02::aeae]:44718"` makes it work, but apparently it won't work from my other device, even though they can ping each others' link local IPv6 addresses.
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References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Simcoe, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 60, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 3 November 2016.
  4. "McDonald County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 4, 2016.



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