Kings Grove, Missouri

Kings Grove, or King Grove,[1][2] is an extinct town in northeastern Holt County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[3][4]

Kings Grove was settled around 1850[5] by John B. King, and named for him.[6] A government survey from 1839 denotes this place as Roland's Grove,[5] for the stream Roland's Branch,[7] the most upstream tributary of the Nodaway River in Holt County.[8] A post office called Konoko[9] (or Konaka) existed from 1872 to 1873, then King Grove post office was established in 1875,[1] and remained in operation until 1881.[10]

There was a schoolhouse and a stock farm named Kings Grove at the location until a few decades after the turn of the 20th century.[8][11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Records of the Post Office Department, Missouri: Henry - Howell". National Archves Catalog. Retrieved May 16, 2025.
  2. ↑ Cram, George Frankling. "New railroad and county map of Missouri, 1882". David Rumsey Map Collection. Retrieved May 15, 2025.
  3. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kings Grove (historical)
  4. ↑ "Holt County, Missouri Political Entities". Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Place Names. Retrieved May 1, 2025.
  5. 1 2 "History of Holt County, Missouri". St. Joseph, Mo., Midland Printing Co., 1917. Retrieved December 15, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Holt County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 8, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  7. ↑ History of Holt and Atchison counties, Missouri. St. Joseph, National Historical Co., 1882. 1882. p. 205.
  8. 1 2 "Holt County 1918". Geo. A. Ogle. Archived from the original on December 5, 2019. Retrieved May 4, 2025.
  9. ↑ "An illustrated historical atlas map of Holt County, Mo, 1877". Brink, McDonough & Company. Retrieved May 2, 2025.
  10. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 8, 2016.
  11. ↑ "Maitland, MO - 1926". TopoView. USGS. Retrieved April 6, 2026.

40°14′46″N 95°07′28″W / 40.246104°N 95.124419°W / 40.246104; -95.124419 (Kings Grove, Missouri)

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