Stringtown, Butler County, Missouri Explained

Official Name:Stringtown, Butler County, Missouri
Settlement Type:Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:Missouri#USA
Pushpin Label:Stringtown
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:United States
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Missouri
Subdivision Type2:County
Subdivision Name2:Butler
Timezone:Central (CST)
Utc Offset:-6
Timezone Dst:CDT
Utc Offset Dst:-5
Elevation Ft:486
Coordinates:36.7528°N -90.5828°W
Area Code:573
Blank Name:GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:752399

Stringtown is an unincorporated community in Butler County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

The community is on Missouri Route M one mile east of Beaverdam Creek.[1]

According to tradition, Stringtown was named for the "string" or line of customers to a local bootleg liquor outlet.[2]

On April 3, 2014, an F0 tornado struck Stringtown. A mobile home had about half of its roof removed and a few tree limbs were broken.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Stringtown, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980
  2. Web site: Butler County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived). The State Historical Society of Missouri. 6 September 2016. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071902/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_butler.html. 24 June 2016.
  3. National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Paducah, Kentucky. Missouri Event Report: EF0 Tornado. National Climatic Data Center. 2014. May 15, 2016.