Hammond is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

Ozark County Ozark County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,553. The largest city and county seat is Gainesville. The county was organized as Ozark County, named after th ...

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

, United States. It is located at the intersection of two county roads on the Little North Fork of the White River, approximately twelve miles northwest of Gainesville and southeast of Thornfield.''Thornfield, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 2004 A post office called Hammond was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1975. Some say the community has the name of the local Hammond family, allegedly the original owners of the town site, while others believe it is unknown why the name "Hammond" was selected. Hammond is the site of the historic Hammond Mill.Rossiter, Phyllis, ''Hammond Mill, The Mills of Ozark County'' originally published in ''The Ozarks Mountaineer,'' July-August, 1990
/ref>Ozark County’s Historic Mills, Hammond Mill
/ref> The mill was built in 1907 and served as a

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separat ...

until around 1940. The mill has since been restored as a private residence. The townsite lies on the northeast side of a wide stream

floodplain A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river which stretches from the banks of its channel to the base of the enclosing valley walls, and which experiences flooding during periods of high discharge.Goudi ...

at an elevation of some 200 feet below the adjacent ridge tops.

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Unincorporated communities in Ozark County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{OzarkCountyMO-geo-stub