Dawson is an

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 ...

in eastern Wright County,

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, United States. Dawson is located on

Missouri Route 95 Route 95 is a highway in southern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 32 at Lynchburg in Laclede County. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 160 at Lutie about 2.5 miles west of the Theodosia arm of Bull Shoals Lake in Ozar ...

, approximately nine miles north of Mountain Grove and three miles south of the Route 95 - Missouri Route 38 junction. Dawson had a post office which was reported as active from 1910 through 1956. The community had a school (Dawson School) in 1938.

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Unincorporated communities in Wright County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{WrightCountyMO-geo-stub