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Created page "Clarkton, Missouri"
'''Clarkton''' is a city in northern [[Dunklin County, Missouri|Dunklin County]], [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 1,288 at the 2010 census.
==History==
A community was laid out on the Clarkton site around the beginning of the [[Civil War]], named Beech after the many beech trees in the area. In 1876, after the construction of a plank road running from just south of Beech into [[New Madrid County, Missouri|New Madrid County]], it grew into a permanent settlement and was renamed in honor of Henry E. Clark, a contractor for the road.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_dunklin.html</ref> Clarkton struggled during its early years, as most business was subsequently drawn towards [[Malden, Missouri|Malden]], but it revived after the arrival of a branch line of the Frisco Railroad in 1895.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=G-AlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA286#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>
==Geography==
Clarkton is located at the intersection of Missouri State Highways 25 and 162 in northern Dunklin County, directly adjacent to New Madrid County to the east. The city of [[Gideon, Missouri|Gideon]] is about two and a half miles to the east, and [[Malden, Missouri|Malden]] is seven miles to the north. Its exact coordinates are 36°27’03”N 89°58’04”W.
The city is located on the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It has a total land area of 1.13 square miles, and an average elevation of 282 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]
==History==
A community was laid out on the Clarkton site around the beginning of the [[Civil War]], named Beech after the many beech trees in the area. In 1876, after the construction of a plank road running from just south of Beech into [[New Madrid County, Missouri|New Madrid County]], it grew into a permanent settlement and was renamed in honor of Henry E. Clark, a contractor for the road.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_dunklin.html</ref> Clarkton struggled during its early years, as most business was subsequently drawn towards [[Malden, Missouri|Malden]], but it revived after the arrival of a branch line of the Frisco Railroad in 1895.<ref>https://books.google.com/books?id=G-AlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA286#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref>
==Geography==
Clarkton is located at the intersection of Missouri State Highways 25 and 162 in northern Dunklin County, directly adjacent to New Madrid County to the east. The city of [[Gideon, Missouri|Gideon]] is about two and a half miles to the east, and [[Malden, Missouri|Malden]] is seven miles to the north. Its exact coordinates are 36°27’03”N 89°58’04”W.
The city is located on the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It has a total land area of 1.13 square miles, and an average elevation of 282 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]