Hematite, Missouri

Unincorporated community in Missouri, United States

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
^ "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.