Gravel Point, Missouri

Gravel Point is an extinct town in southwestern Texas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.^[1]

A post office called Gravel Point was established in 1871, the name was changed to Gravelpoint in 1895, and the post office closed in 1905.^[2] The community was so named on account of gravel deposits near the original town site.^[3]

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gravel Point (historical)
↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
↑ "Texas County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.

Municipalities and communities of Texas County, Missouri, United States
County seat: Houston
Cities	Cabool Houston Licking Mountain Grove‡ Summersville‡
Villages	Plato Raymondville
Townships	Boone Burdine Carroll Cass Clinton Current Date Jackson Lynch Morris Ozark Pierce Piney Roubidoux Sargent Sherrill Upton
Unincorporated communities	Alice Arroll Ashley Creek Bado Bendavis Big Creek Bucyrus Clara Clear Springs Dent Dunn Dykes Elk Creek Ellis Prairie Ellsworth Eunice Evening Shade Fowler Guild Hartshorn Huggins Kimble Kinderpost Ladd Lundy Mahan Maples Mitchells Corner Nile Oscar Pleasant Ridge Prescott Roby Samoa Sargent Sherrill Simmons Solo Stultz Success Tyrone Upton Vada Varvol Venable Yukon
Ghost towns	Edanville Gravel Point Grogan Hattie Hazleton Hurst Louisa Nagle Plum Valley Raftville Roubidoux Turley
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 37°13′29″N 92°10′05″W / 37.22472°N 92.16806°W / 37.22472; -92.16806

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