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Mountain View, Missouri (view source)
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'''Mountain View''' is a city in northeastern [[Howell County, Missouri|Howell County]], [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 2,719 at the 2010 census.
'''Mountain View''' is a city in northeastern [[Howell County, Missouri|Howell County]], [[Missouri]]. It had a population of 2,719 at the 2010 census.
==History==
The first prominent settler in the Mountain View area was William H. Goldsberry, a [[Baptist]] minister and landowner who had moved there from [[North Carolina]] in 1856. During the 1860s, he established a church and school on his land, and by 1880 there were two stores in operation as well. In 1879 a post office was set up for the neighborhood, with John C. Campbell as the first postmaster. The growing community was mostly located on a small elevation that provided a decent vista of the thinly timbered countryside; thus, the post office (and then the town) was named Mountain View.<ref>https://collections.shsmo.org/manuscripts/columbia/C2366/howell-county</ref>
Mountain View only developed as a distinct town following the construction of the Current River Railroad, a branch of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, in 1888. It was incorporated as a village in 1908, and then as a fourth-class city in 1916, with Dr. H. E. Ferrell serving as the first mayor. Though it benefited, like other communities in southern Missouri, from the boom in lumber harvesting during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was not one of the core areas of such activity, and so its growth was slower but more stable. Especially from the 1960s onward, the city's position along U.S. Route 60 became of more importance, as east-west travelers across the Ozarks found it a useful stopover site.<ref>http://online.flipbuilder.com/lgxc/tcrm/</ref>
==Geography==
Mountain View is located at the junction of U.S. Route 60 and Missouri State Highway 17 in northeastern Howell County, about 15 miles east of [[Willow Springs, Missouri|Willow Springs]] and about 20 miles northeast of [[West Plains, Missouri|West Plains]]. Its exact coordinates are 36°59’44”N 91°42’03”W.
The city lies on generally rolling terrain between the somewhat more rugged upper valleys of the Eleven Point River to the southeast and the Jacks Fork of the Current River to the north. It has a total land area of 3.75 square miles, and an average elevation of 1,142 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]]
[[Category:Missouri Cities and Towns]]