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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