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Sabula is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in southwest Iron County, in the
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of
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. The community is on the east floodplain of Big Creek along
Missouri Route 49 Route 49 is a highway in eastern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 19 in Cherryville, and its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 67 five miles (8 km) east of Williamsville. The highway runs through the eastern part of the O ...
between
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three miles to the south and Glover about 5.5 miles to the north.


History

Sabula was originally called Reynolds, and under the latter name was
plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...
ted in 1873 when the railroad was extended to that point. A post office called Sabula was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1953.


References

Unincorporated communities in Iron County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{IronCountyMO-geo-stub