Syenite, Missouri
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Syenite is an unincorporated community in southern
St. Francois County St. Francois County () is a county located in the Lead Belt region in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 66,922. The largest city and county seat is Farmington. The county was officially organized on Decem ...
, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community lies on
Missouri Route DD A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated with letters. Supplemental routes were various roads within the state which the Missouri Department of Transportation was given in 1952 to maintain in additio ...
, west of U.S. Route 67. Knob Lick lies approximately 1.5 miles to the east and the
St. Francis River The St. Francis River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about long, in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas in the United States. The river drains a mostly rural area and forms part of the Missouri-Arkansas state line along the ...
valley is to the north and west. Knob Lick Mountain lies about one mile to the south-southeast.


History

A post office called Syenite was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1914. The community was named after the rock
syenite Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (< 5%). Some syenites contain larger proport ...
, since the area was a mining district.


References

Unincorporated communities in St. Francois County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{StFrancoisCountyMO-geo-stub