List of National Natural Landmarks in Missouri

From List of National Natural Landmarks, these are the National Natural Landmarks in Missouri. There are 16 in total.

	Name	Date	Location	County	Ownership	Description
1	Big Oak Tree State Park	000000001986-05-01-0000May 1986	East Prairie 36°39′18″N 89°19′42″W / 36.655°N 89.32833°W / 36.655; -89.32833 (Big Oak Tree State Park)	Mississippi	state	A rare untouched wet-mesic bottomland hardwood forest in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, it is the home of several state and national champion trees
2	Carroll Cave	000000001977-01-01-00001977		Camden	private	Contains a dendritic system of subsurface karst streams and tributaries.
3	Cupola Pond	000000001974-01-01-00001974		Ripley	federal	One of the most ancient sinkhole ponds in the Ozark plateaus. Located in Mark Twain National Forest.
4	Golden Prairie	000000001975-01-01-00001975		Barton	private	An essentially virgin tall grass prairie ecosystem.
5	Grand Gulf State Park	000000001971-06-01-0000June 1971	Thayer 36°31′27″N 91°32′38″W / 36.52427°N 91.54389°W / 36.52427; -91.54389 (Grand Gulf State Park)	Oregon	state	An excellent example of karst topography, this canyon is a collapsed dolomite cave with a 200 feet (61 m) natural bridge. Water in this canyon emerges 9 miles (14 km) away in Mammoth Spring, Arkansas.
6	Greer Spring	000000001980-01-01-00001980		Oregon	private	Spring in the Ozarks that discharges into a high quality, cascading stream.
7	Maple Woods Natural Area	000000001980-01-01-00001980		Clay	state	Contains a nearly virgin sugar maple and mockernut hickory forest.
8	Maramec Spring	000000001971-10-01-0000October 1971	St. James 37°57′19″N 91°32′11″W / 37.95526°N 91.53632°W / 37.95526; -91.53632 (Maramec Spring)	Phelps	private	A natural spring, the fifth largest in the state. It has a notable trout park and a historic iron works in a privately owned park.
9	Mark Twain and Cameron Caves	000000001972-01-01-00001972		Marion	private	Exceptionally good examples of the maze type of cavern development.
10	Marvel Cave	000000001972-01-01-00001972		Stone	private	Includes one of the greatest dripstone units of all the Ozark caves.
11	Onondaga Cave State Park	000000001980-01-01-00001980		Crawford	state	Contains an unusually large and varied number of speleothems.
12	Pickle Springs	000000001975-01-01-00001975		Ste. Genevieve	state	Contains one of the finest Pleistocene relict habitats in Missouri.
13	Taberville Prairie	000000001975-01-01-00001975		St. Clair	state	One of the largest remaining virgin tall grass prairies.
14	Tucker Prairie	000000001975-01-01-00001975		Callaway	private	A virgin tall grass prairie occurring within the transition zone between the oak-hickory forest and typical tall grass prairie.
15	Tumbling Creek Cave	000000001980-01-01-00001980		Taney	private	Contains the most diverse fauna known for any cave west of the Mississippi River.
16	Wegener Woods	000000001975-01-01-00001975		Warren	private	An essentially virgin oak-hickory-dominated forest in a condition of gradual change to a sugar maple-dominated forest.

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