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Platanus, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Gillis Bluff Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63961. The Survey maps it on the Oglesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Platanus within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fagus1.6 miles13
Whitlow3.9 miles13
Carola4.0 miles13
Oglesville4.0 miles13
Osborn4.2 miles9
Qulin4.3 miles9
Quercus6.7 miles9
Nyssa7.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 739595. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.