Nyssa is an unincorporated community in southeast Butler County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]
Nyssa, Missouri | |
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Coordinates: 36°38′23″N 90°14′33″W / 36.6397790°N 90.2426029°W | |
Land | Vereinigte Staaten |
State | Missouri |
County | Butler |
Elevation | 440 ft (130 m) |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 573 |
GNIS feature ID | 740009[1] |
The community is on Missouri Route 51 2.5 miles south of Broseley and three miles north of Qulin. Poplar Bluff is eleven miles to the northwest.[2]
The community was a timber station on the old Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Nyssa is the generic botanical name for the locally abundant tupelo gum. William N. Barron gave the town its name.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Nyssa, Missouri
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, First edition, 1998, p. 67 ISBN 0899332242
- ^ "Butler County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
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