Possum Walk, Missouri

Lamar Cemetery at Possum Walk, Missouri AKA Lamar's Station, Missouri

Possum Walk is an extinct community in northwestern Nodaway County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

The community was platted in January 1871 by John Lamar but with the building of Burlington Junction and Elmo at where the railway went, the hamlet decayed.[2] It was located on the west side of the Nodaway River floodplain two miles southeast of the community of Elmo. [3]

Possum Walk is an invented name.[4] Variant names include Lamar[5] or Lamar Station, named after the LaMar family that operated the Possum Walk Hotel that is now a national landmark.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Possum Walk
  2. ↑ https://nodaway.mogenweb.org/countyhist/bygonetowns.html
  3. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 15, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  4. ↑ "Nodaway County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Rand, McNally & Co.'s Missouri and Arkansas, 1878". David Rumsey Map Collection. Rand McNally and Company. Retrieved April 8, 2026.

40°29′40″N 95°05′04″W / 40.49444°N 95.08444°W / 40.49444; -95.08444

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