Coldwater, Missouri

Coldwater
Unincorporated community
Coldwater Location within the state of Missouri
Coordinates: 37°18′12″N 90°24′35″W
Country	United States
State	Missouri
County	Wayne
Elevation [1]	492 ft (150 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID	716084[1]

Coldwater is an unincorporated community in northern Wayne County, Missouri, United States.^[1] It is located just east of U.S. Route 67, approximately seventeen miles south of Fredericktown and one mile south of the Madison-Wayne county line. The community is on Cedar Creek^[2] about three miles west of the St. Francis River.^[3]

A post office called Cold Water was established in 1848, the name was changed to Coldwater in 1894, and the post office closed in 1967.^[4] The community was named for a spring near the original town site.^[5]

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Coldwater, Missouri
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cedar Creek
3. Coldwater, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980
4. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 1, 2017.
5. "Wayne County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.