Tiffin is an unincorporated community in southern St. Clair County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

The community is on Missouri Route 82 seven miles northeast of El Dorado Springs and fourteen miles southwest of Osceola.[2] Little Clear Creek, a tributary to Clear Creek, flows past one mile west of the community and the upper reaches of the Harry S Truman Reservoir are 2.5 miles to the north.[2]

History

Variant names were "New Tiffin" and "Whitley".[1] The community was platted under the name Whitley in 1890.[3] The Tiffin post office closed in 1955.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tiffin
  2. 1 2 Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed. 1998, p. 43 ISBN 0899332242
  3. ↑ "St. Clair County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 27, 2016.

37°57′18″N 93°56′18″W / 37.95500°N 93.93833°W / 37.95500; -93.93833


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