West Quincy, Missouri

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West Quincy is a small commercial area in northeastern Marion County, Missouri, United States, on U.S. Route 24. It has no permanent residents.

[edit] History

West Quincy is directly across the Mississippi River from Quincy, Illinois and once housed a Chicago, Burlington & Quincy train station, drive-in theater, and corporation. However, since the flood of 1993, many businesses have left.

Knapheide was the corporation once located here, it is now located in the north end of Quincy, Illinois.

A tornado hit the drive-in theater and nearly crossed to Quincy but receded once it hit the bluffs.

During the flood of 1993, the levee was sabotaged and water filled the floodplain, and a nearby barge was sucked into the break in the levee. It hit a local gas station and caused an explosion. Oil caught fire and the fire snaked across the water. All the Quincy bridges were closed, and if you lived on the other side of the river you had to drive to either Saint Louis or the Quad Cities to cross the enormous river.