Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.
Gobler ( GOB -lərunincorporated community on the border between Dunklin and Pemiscot counties in the U.S. state of Missouri .[ 1] Caruthersville and seven miles southeast of Kennett . The community is on Missouri Route NN and the old St. Louis Southwestern Railway line which is now Dunklin County Road 710.[ 2] [ 3]
It still has a post office open two hours a day, six days a week.[ 4] general store established in 1937 that served the surrounding farming population.[ 5]
The community is in the Delta C-7 consolidated school district, headquartered six miles northeast at Deering . Until 1963, Gobler was the site of the predecessor consolidated District C-6's segregated elementary school for African American students.[ 6] [ 7] [self-published source
References
^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gobler, Missouri ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 70-71, ISBN 0-89933-224-2 ^ Deering, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1978^ "USPS.com® - Location Details" .^ "More This and That" . Little River Valley .^ http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED028231.pdf , at p. 47^ Wade, Ophelia R. (February 4, 2000). Deering Plantation: Sixty Thousand Acres in the Bootheel of Missouri ISBN 9781462815425
36°09′22″N 89°57′33″W / 36.15611°N 89.95917°W / 36.15611; -89.95917
