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'''Naylor''' is a city in southeastern [[Ripley County, Missouri|Ripley County]], [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 632 at the 2010 census.
==History==
The community of Naylor owed its creation to the construction of the Iron Mountain branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, completed in 1882. It was first dubbed "Barfield" after a local landowner of that name. Due to confusion created by the existence of another town named Barfield in Arkansas, the name was eventually changed to honor William A. Naylor, a land surveyor and former army officer.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/ripley-county</ref> The change was not made official until 1910, though the post office was using the name of Naylor from 1892.
Timber-clearing and woodworking were the town's main source of prosperity in early days, with agriculture replacing it from the 1920s onward and still important today.<ref>https://www.ripleycountymissouri.org/history.php</ref>
==Geography==
Naylor is located along Missouri State Highway 142 in southeastern Ripley County, near the boundary with neighboring [[Butler County, Missouri|Butler County]]. It is about five miles west-northwest of [[Neelyville, Missouri|Neelyville]], and about twelve miles southeast of [[Doniphan, Missouri|Doniphan]]. Its exact coordinates are 36°34’27”N 90°36’16”W.
The city lies near the western edge of the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain, about a mile southeast of the Little Black River, a tributary of the Current River and marking the eastern limit of the Ozarks. It has a total land area of 0.55 square miles, and an average elevation of 305 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
==References==
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==History==
The community of Naylor owed its creation to the construction of the Iron Mountain branch of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, completed in 1882. It was first dubbed "Barfield" after a local landowner of that name. Due to confusion created by the existence of another town named Barfield in Arkansas, the name was eventually changed to honor William A. Naylor, a land surveyor and former army officer.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/ripley-county</ref> The change was not made official until 1910, though the post office was using the name of Naylor from 1892.
Timber-clearing and woodworking were the town's main source of prosperity in early days, with agriculture replacing it from the 1920s onward and still important today.<ref>https://www.ripleycountymissouri.org/history.php</ref>
==Geography==
Naylor is located along Missouri State Highway 142 in southeastern Ripley County, near the boundary with neighboring [[Butler County, Missouri|Butler County]]. It is about five miles west-northwest of [[Neelyville, Missouri|Neelyville]], and about twelve miles southeast of [[Doniphan, Missouri|Doniphan]]. Its exact coordinates are 36°34’27”N 90°36’16”W.
The city lies near the western edge of the flat Mississippi Alluvial Plain, about a mile southeast of the Little Black River, a tributary of the Current River and marking the eastern limit of the Ozarks. It has a total land area of 0.55 square miles, and an average elevation of 305 feet.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt</ref>
==References==
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