McKittrick, Missouri
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YoSam.
N 38° 44.094 W 091° 26.653
15S E 635222 N 4288507
Another railroad town, most fell when MKT Railway folded, this one hangs on.
Waymark Code: WMRM7R
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/07/2016
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County of town: Montgomery County
Location of town: MO-19 & MKT Train Tracks (now the Katy Trail State Park)
SE corner of county
County is Mid-Central eastern Missouri
Elevation: 518 ft (158 m)
Population: 60 (2013)
The town stay afloat, the old general store does some business from the users of the Katy Trail State Park, a rails to trails thoroughfare. It travels from St. Charles, MO on the Missouri River to Sadelia in the central part of the state.
"McKittrick, a town in northwest Prairie Township, founded in 1834. Named from its position at the intersection of north-south and east-west roads and in a central location in a good farming country." ~ Source: Leech, Esther. "Place Names Of Six East Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1933
"It is on the southern edge of the county on the M. K. & T. Railroad, near Warren County line." --Williams, p. 455.
It is situated on Sec. 34, Twp. 46 N, R. 5 W at the junction of 19 & 94.
It is a rural branch of Herrman, Gasconade Co." ~ Rand McNally, 1974.