Hematite is an unincorporated community in eastern Jefferson County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on Missouri Route P approximately seven miles northeast of De Soto. [2]
Hematite was platted in 1861. [3] The community was named for nearby deposits of hematite. [4] A post office called Hematite has been in operation since 1858, [5] and the United Nuclear Corporation's reactor fuel production plant operated in the area from 1957 until 2001. [6]
References
- ^ "Hematite, Missouri". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, pp. 48-49 ISBN 0899332242
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"Jefferson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
{{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ( link) - ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 180.
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 19, 2016.
- ^ Thorsen, Leah. "Cleanup under way at shuttered Hematite nuclear fuel factory". STLtoday.com. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
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