Big Piney, Missouri

Big Piney is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Missouri, United States[1] on the southeastern edge of Fort Leonard Wood and one mile west of a bend in the Big Piney River.[2] The community is on Missouri Route TT four miles northeast of Palace. Licking is seventeen miles to the southeast.[3] Its former K-8 school has closed; students attend the Plato R-V School District.[4]

History

A post office called Big Piney was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1972.[5] The community takes its name from the Big Piney River.[6]

During the Civil War, companies of the 5th Missouri State Militia garrisoned in Big Piney.[7]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Big Piney
  2. Big Piney, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1954 (1991 rev.)
  3. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  4. "Home of the Eagles". www.plato.k12.mo.us.
  5. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 10, 2016.
  6. "Pulaski County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  7. Hewett, J. (1994). Supplement to the Official records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Pub. Co. , Volume 35, p. 136

37°40′19″N 92°05′53″W

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