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Welcome to Mine La Motte ...

Mine La Motte is located in Madison County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Mine La Motte, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

Mine La Motte is 800 feet [244 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Mine La Motte lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Mine La Motte: 573 & 235<3>

Communities near Mine La Motte ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Mine La Motte.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Mine La Motte. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Mine La Motte.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Mine La Motte. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mine La Motte.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Mine La Motte. See our Newspapers Page for Mine La Motte.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Mine La Motte ...

Looking for more information about Mine La Motte? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Mine La Motte, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Mine La Motte.

Adding Mine La Motte to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Mine La Motte in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Mine La Motte was in the book titled Table of U.S. Post Offices in the United States (Jan. 1851).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Mine La Motte.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Missouri's counties, including Madison, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Mine La Motte - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 573 code has been Overlayed with the 235 area code. New phone numbers in the Mine La Motte area will be assigned with one of these codes: 573 or 235. As a result, placing a call in the Mine La Motte area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.