Junland is an unincorporated community in Butler County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

The community is at the junction of Missouri routes B (old Route 60) and Z five miles east of Poplar Bluff. It was a station on the Missouri Pacific Railroad.[2]

The shortening and alteration of "jungleland" was descriptive of the condition of the original town site.[3]

On January 29, 2013, an EF2 tornado struck Junland. A small, older, poorly constructed home was leveled, a mobile home was destroyed, and a couple of small structures were blown over. Many trees were snapped along the path.[4]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Junland, Missouri
  2. ↑ Poplar Bluff, MO, 15 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1935 (1950 rev.)
  3. ↑ "Butler County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 6, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ↑ Missouri Event Report: EF2 Tornado (Report). National Centers for Environmental Information. National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Paducah, Kentucky. 2013. Retrieved November 18, 2017.

36°46′07″N 90°16′51″W / 36.76861°N 90.28083°W / 36.76861; -90.28083


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