Forbes, Missouri
Forbes is an unincorporated community in southeastern Holt County, Missouri, United States.[1]
History
[edit]Forbes was laid out in 1869[2] and was established along the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railway.[3] The community was named for railroad magnate John Murray Forbes.[4] The first post office called Elm Grove was operated by the founder of the town Levi Devorss[3] from 1868 to 1895.[5] A post office called Forbes was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1975.[5]
Geography
[edit]Forbes is located at the intersection of Missouri Route O and Route T where the Loess Hills and the Missouri River floodplain meet. It is located approximately eight miles southeast of Forest City and ten miles west of Amazonia. Due to a bend in the nearby Missouri River, Kansas is about three miles east, south, and west of Forbes.
References
[edit]- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Forbes, Missouri
- ^ "Holt County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ a b Williams, Walter (1915). A History of Northwest Missouri Volume I. The Lewis Publishing Company. p. 540.
- ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 174.
- ^ a b "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved March 21, 2025.
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