Do you know of Moreau ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Moreau. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Moreau.

Our sources for Moreau (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Moreau other than they indicate that Moreau would be found somewhere in Cole County, Missouri.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1837 and closed  in 1848.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Moreau ...

We found one communities that share the name Moreau.

Within Missouri, the name Moreau is unique.

Beyond Missouri, there is another community also named Moreau in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • South Dakota
    • Dewey County
    • Please visit our profile page for the South Dakota community of Moreau [Dewey County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Moreau ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Moreau:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Moreau - Services available: had a Railroad Station, no Post Office mentioned

U.S. Post Offices (Oct. 1846)
Published by John T. Towers

More Orphans in  Cole County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Cole County.