St. Francisville, Missouri

St. Francisville or Saint Francisville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in northeast Clark County, Missouri, United States.[1] As of the 2020 census, its population was 137. [2]

The community is on Missouri Route B four miles north of Wayland. The Des Moines River and the Missouri-Iowa border are one-half mile north of the community.[3]

Etymology

St. Francisville was platted in 1833, by a man named Francis Church.[4]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: St. Francisville, Missouri
  2. "2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  3. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, First edition, 1998, p. 17 ISBN 0899332242
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 276.


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