BlockOtterville Township
The complete chapter on this township from A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876. 226 words, covering 2 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
2 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clifton City | 5 | 3 | 5 | - |
| Otterville | 7 | 26 | 9 | - |
Settlements in this township
2 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 2 is named in the chapter; the other was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
226 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Otterville Township
Otterville is located on the Missouri Pacific railroad, in the southwestern part of the count3^ It has an abundance of timber and water, and would be a good location for manufactories. It was incorporated in 1857. It has a good public school building, in successsful operation for ten years; also a good select female school, in a good brick building, belonging to Mrs. A. M. Drennan, proprietress ; four churches, a Masonic and Odd Fellows hall, two colored churches, and about fourteen stores. The houses in the business portion of the town are substantial brick structures ; its population is about 800. Lead abounds in large quantities in the vicinity. It is the largest and most important town in the county except Boonville. It is surrounded by a rich and fertile country, and an industrious, thrifty and wealthy population. [See chapter xv.]
Bunceton is located on the Osage Valley & Southern Kansas railroad, fourteen miles south of Boonville. It has one church, a Masonic hall, an excellent flour mill, about six stores, two shoe shops, one tailor shop, two dru^ stores, three physicians and one lawyer. It is surrounded by excellent timber, good coal mines, and cement rock near. It was located in 1869, and has a population of about four hundred. It also has an excellent high school, taught by Prof. Cullv, with commendable success.
Provenance
Text from A History of Cooper County, Missouri, from the First Visit by White Men in February, 1804, to the Fifth Day of July, 1876, published 1876, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.