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Naylor is a city in southeastern 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.[1] 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.[2]
Geography
Naylor is located along Missouri State Highway 142 in southeastern Ripley County, near the boundary with neighboring Butler County. It is about five miles west-northwest of Neelyville, and about twelve miles southeast of 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.[3]