Scott City, Atchison County, Missouri
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Scott City is an extinct hamlet in Atchison County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place, but the precise location of the town site is unknown.[1] It was located on the Missouri River, two miles west of Phelps City.[2]
Scott City had the name of its founder, Margaret Scott,[3] who had settled at the site of the community by at least 1850. The town was laid out in 1856,[2] with an addition known as Kalamazoo added in 1865.[4] Business owners in the community included D. C. Billings and R. V. Muir (merchants), J. K. Tift (attorney), Jacob Bruner (saloon keeper), and Flack Wilson (operator of gristmill and sawmill).[5] Scott City died out after the construction of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad; the development of the railroad instead led to growth at Phelps City and Watson.[2] By 1899, the location of Scott City had been washed away by the Missouri River,[5] but a 1939 newspaper article noted that "the land where the town stood has been rebuilt by the uncertain river" but that no remains of the former community were visible.[2]
The community's post office was named North Star.[2] The post office was established in 1857, and remained in operation until 1874.[6]
