Cascade, Missouri

Cascade
Unincorporated community
Cascade Location within the state of Missouri
Coordinates: 37°17′58″N 90°16′09″W
Country	United States
State	Missouri
County	Wayne
Elevation [1]	525 ft (160 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	old 63632 closed in 2004 or 05
GNIS feature ID	715465[1]

Cascade is an unincorporated community in northeastern Wayne County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route M, approximately eighteen miles west of Marble Hill. The community is on Little Creek, just south of Big Creek. The community of Gravelton is one mile to the east of Cascade on Big Creek.^[2]

History

A post office called Cascade was in operation from 1910 until 2005 at its closing.^[3] The community was named for a series of waterfalls near the original town site.^[4]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cascade, Missouri
2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 57, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
4. "Wayne County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.