Tiffin is an
unincorporated community
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in southern
St. Clair County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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.
The community is on
Missouri Route 82
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From 1922 to about 1927, Route 82 west of Osceola was part of Rou ...
seven miles northeast of
El Dorado Springs and fourteen miles southwest of
Osceola
Osceola (1804 – January 30, 1838, Vsse Yvholv in Muscogee language, Creek, also spelled Asi-yahola), named Billy Powell at birth, was an influential leader of the Seminole people in Florida. His mother was Muscogee, and his great-grandfa ...
.
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1st ed. 1998, p. 43 ] 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
The Harry S. Truman Dam and Reservoir, also known as Truman Lake, is located in the state of Missouri, United States. It is located between Clinton and Warsaw, on the Osage River and extends south to Osceola. The dam is located in Benton Cou ...
are 2.5 miles to the north.
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History
Variant names were "New Tiffin" and "Whitley".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 under the name Whitley in 1890. The Tiffin post office closed in 1955.
References
Unincorporated communities in St. Clair County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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