Coldwater, Missouri
Unincorporated community in Missouri, United States
37°18′12″N 90°24′35″W / 37.30333°N 90.40972°W / 37.30333; -90.40972[1]
Coldwater is an unincorporated community in northern Wayne County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located just east of U.S. Route 67, approximately seventeen miles south of Fredericktown and one mile south of the Madison-Wayne county line. The community is on Cedar Creek[2] about three miles west of the St. Francis River.[3]
A post office called Cold Water was established in 1848, the name was changed to Coldwater in 1894, and the post office closed in 1967.[4] The community was named for a spring near the original town site.[5]
References
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Coldwater, Missouri
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cedar Creek
- ^ Coldwater, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
- ^ "Wayne County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
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