Dawn, Missouri

Coordinates: 39°40′6″N 93°38′7″W / 39.66833°N 93.63528°W / 39.66833; -93.63528
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Dawn, Missouri
FIPS code
29-18496
GNIS feature ID716744[1]

Dawn is an

unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Livingston County, Missouri, United States.[3] As of the 2020 census it had a population of 100.[4]

Dawn was platted in 1853.[5] A post office called Dawn has been in operation since 1852.[6]

Geography

Dawn is located in southwestern Livingston County on

Missouri Supplemental Route C, approximately 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Chillicothe, the county seat
.

According to the

U.S. Census Bureau, the Dawn CDP has an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), all of it recorded as land.[7] The community is on high ground on the east bank of Shoal Creek, a northeast-flowing tributary of the Grand River and part of the Missouri River
watershed.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
2020100
U.S. Decennial Census[8]

References

  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dawn, Missouri
  2. ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  3. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dawn, Missouri
  4. ^ "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved January 20, 2022.
  5. ^ "Livingston County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  6. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  7. ^ "U.S. Gazetteer Files: 2019: Places: Missouri". U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
  8. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.