Tiffin, Missouri
Tiffin is an unincorporated community in southern St. Clair County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]
The community is on Missouri Route 82 seven miles northeast of El Dorado Springs and fourteen miles southwest of Osceola.[2] Little Clear Creek, a tributary to Clear Creek, flows past one mile west of the community and the upper reaches of the Harry S Truman Reservoir are 2.5 miles to the north.[2]
History
Variant names were "New Tiffin" and "Whitley".[1] The community was platted under the name Whitley in 1890.[3] The Tiffin post office closed in 1955.[4]
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tiffin
- Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed. 1998, p. 43 ISBN 0899332242
- "St. Clair County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
- "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
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