Tiffin 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 ...
in southern
St. Clair County, in the
U.S. state of
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
.
The community is on
Missouri Route 82 seven miles northeast of
El Dorado Springs and fourteen miles southwest of
Osceola.
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1st ed. 1998, p. 43 ] Little Clear Creek, a tributary to
Clear Creek, flows past one mile west of the community and the upper reaches of the
Harry S Truman Reservoir are 2.5 miles to the north.
[
]
History
Variant names were "New Tiffin" and "Whitley".plat
In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Surveys to show the distance and bear ...
ted under the name Whitley in 1890. The Tiffin post office closed in 1955.
References
Unincorporated communities in St. Clair County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
{{StClairCountyMO-geo-stub