Dresden (also Dresdon) 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 ...

Pettis County, Missouri Pettis County is a County (United States), county located in west central U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 42,980. Its county seat is Sedalia, Missouri, Sedalia. The county was organiz ...

, United States.

History

A post office called Dresden was established in 1863, and remained in operation until 1954. The community was named after

Dresden Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. Dresden was once an incorporated town.

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Unincorporated communities in Pettis County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{PettisCountyMO-geo-stub