Nyssa is an

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in southeast Butler County, in the

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. The community is on

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2.5 miles south of

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and three miles north of

Qulin Qulin is a town located in Butler County, Missouri, Butler County in Southeast Missouri, United States. The population was 460 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Qulin is included within the Poplar Bluff Metropolitan Statistical Area ...

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is eleven miles to the northwest.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, First edition, 1998, p. 67 The community was a timber station on the old

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. ''Nyssa'' is the generic botanical name for the locally abundant tupelo gum. William N. Barron gave the town its name.

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