Mountain Grove, Missouri Mountain Grove, Missouri Location of Mountain Grove, Missouri Location of Mountain Grove, Missouri Mountain Grove is a town/city in Texas and Wright Counties in the U.S.
State of Missouri, positioned in south central Missouri.
Mountain Grove was originally called "Fyan". A postal service called Mountain Grove has been in operation since 1875. The improve owes its present name to a stand of trees near the initial elevated town site. In 1841 a settlement was assembled on territory east of Mountain Grove near a spring in a grove of hickory timber.
The old postal service established under the name of Fyan before the Civil War changed to Mountain Grove, with reference to its locale on a ridge in a grove of trees, in 1878.(Bell, Margaret E.
This became known as the "mountain store, mountain grove or the mountain" because the altitude is 1,525 feet.
One of the most famous incidents in Mountain Grove occurred in the middle of May 1883 when what was called a "nipping frost" caused every tree, sapling and shrub in the improve of Fyan and the Fyan depot to be cut clean as from an axe.
Thus, the joining of Mountain Grove and adjoining Fyan occurred.
In June, the name of the depot was changed to Mountain Grove.
Administration Building, Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station, Mountain Grove Bandstand, and Mountain Grove City Hall are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Mountain Grove is positioned at 37 7 56 N 92 15 50 W (37.132243, 92.263849). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.04 square miles (10.46 km2), of which, 4.01 square miles (10.39 km2) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2) is water. There were 2,008 homeholds of which 32.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were married couples living together, 14.5% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.4% were non-families.
26.7% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.3% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 22% were from 25 to 44; 22.9% were from 45 to 64; and 19.1% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 1,976 homeholds out of which 29.4% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 46.4% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 37.5% were non-families.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 25.7% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 20.3% who were 65 years of age or older.
The City of Mountain Grove is a 4th-class town/city and operates with a Mayor/Board of Aldermen form of Government.
Mountain Grove enhance schools are a class 3 - A school in Missouri, including one elementary grades Pre-K through 4th, one middle school grades 5th 8th, and one high school grades 9th 12th.
Mountain Grove High School also homes Ozark Mountain Technical Center, which allows students to gain technology skills necessary for vocational longterm position paths.
Mountain Grove Christian Academy has approximately 68 students, undertaking Pre-K through 12th.
The Agriculture Department of Missouri State University operates the 190-acre (0.77 km2) Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station in Mountain Grove.
The station includes the Center for Grapevine Biotechnology and the Mountain Grove Cellars.
Army, was born in Mountain Grove and is buried there.
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
Mountain Grove Schools Historic maps of Mountain Grove in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri City Government of Mountain Grove Mountain Grove Chamber Mountain Grove, MO Mountain Grove News-Journal : Serving The Tri-County Area Since 1882! Municipalities and communities of Texas County, Missouri, United States Municipalities and communities of Wright County, Missouri, United States
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