Pleasant Gap is an unincorporated community in southeastern Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route 0 approximately ten miles southeast of Butler.[1]

History

Pleasant Gap was laid out in about 1840.[2] It was so named from its scenic setting in a gap.[3] A post office called Pleasant Gap was established in 1840, and remained in operation until 1918.[4]

References

  1. Missouri Atlas & Gasetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed, 1998, p. 42 ISBN 0899332242
  2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pleasant Gap, Missouri
  3. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named (in public domain). The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 208.
  4. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved September 1, 2016.

38°10′22″N 94°10′56″W / 38.17278°N 94.18222°W / 38.17278; -94.18222


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