Turners or Turner is a small

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in

Greene County, Missouri Greene County is located in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, its population was 298,915. making it the fourth most-populous county in Missouri and the most populous outside the Kansas City or Saint Loui ...

, United States. It lies on the southeast side of the

James River The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowli ...

floodplain, approximately 3.5 miles east of

U.S. Route 65 U.S. Route 65 (US 65) is a north–south United States highway in the southern and midwestern United States. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 425 in Clayton, Louisiana. The northern terminus is at Interstate 35 just south of I ...

in east Springfield. The community lies at the intersection of Routes D and J near the confluence of Turner Creek with the James River. The old

St. Louis–San Francisco Railway The St. Louis–San Francisco Railway , commonly known as the "Frisco", was a railroad that operated in the Midwest and South Central United States from 1876 to November 21, 1980. At the end of 1970, it operated of road on of track, not includ ...

(currently the

BNSF Railway BNSF Railway is the largest freight railroad in the United States. One of six North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 36,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and over 8,000 locomotives. It has three Transcontinental railroad, transcontine ...

) passed through the community. A post office called Turners has been in operation since 1889. The community carries the surname of an original owner of the site.Turner's Missouri
By Rhonda Turner. White River Valley Historical Quarterly, Volume 8, Number 4 - Summer 1983. Accessed 5 November 2023.

References

Unincorporated communities in Greene County, Missouri Springfield metropolitan area, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{GreeneCountyMO-geo-stub