Fourteen Bend, Missouri

Fourteen Bend is an extinct town in Pemiscot County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

Fourteen Bend was so named on account of the community's location near the fourteenth major meander on the Mississippi River going downstream from Cairo, Illinois.[2]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fourteen Bend (historical)
  2. ^ "Pemiscot County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
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36°16′49″N 89°35′20″W / 36.2803449°N 89.5889669°W / 36.2803449; -89.5889669


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