Portland, Missouri

Portland is an unincorporated community in eastern Callaway County, Missouri, USA. It is part of the Jefferson City, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located at 38°42′37″N 91°43′02″W / 38.71028°N 91.71722°W / 38.71028; -91.71722 (38.710161,-91.717166)^[1] on Route 94 about twenty miles northeast of Jefferson City.

History

The village was laid out in 1831.^[2] Its location directly on the Missouri River made it a popular shipping point for the farms and plantations of Callaway County. The name Portland stems from that activity.^[3]

References

↑ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2011-04-23.
↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 268.
↑ McMillen, Margot Ford (1994). Paris, Tightwad and Peculiar: Missouri Place Names. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. p. 41. ISBN 0-8262-0972-6.

Municipalities and communities of Callaway County, Missouri, United States

County seat: Fulton

Cities	Auxvasse Fulton Holts Summit Jefferson City‡ Mokane New Bloomfield

Villages	Kingdom City Lake Mykee Town

Townships	Auxvasse Bourbon Caldwell Calwood Cedar Cleveland Cote Sans Dessein East Fulton Guthrie Jackson Liberty McCredie Nine Mile Prairie Round Prairie St. Aubert Shamrock Summit West Fulton

Unincorporated communities	Cedar City Millersburg Portland Readsville Steedman Tebbetts Toledo Williamsburg Yucatan

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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