unincorporated community
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Missouri
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John Murray Forbes
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. At that time there were only 40 families in the vicinity and no village established yet. The first post office called Elm Grove was operated by the founder of the town Levi Devorss from 1868 to 1895. The railroad station at that time was named Tarkio. During the 1880 census, the communtiy of Forbes boasted a populated of 159 and was considered a village. A post office called Forbes was established in 1903, and remained in operation until 1975. The
BNSF
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railway alongside Forbes continues to operate freight trains carrying coal for the Iatan power plant near Kansas City.
Geography
Forbes is located at the intersection of Route O and Route T at the foot of the
Loess Hills
The Loess Hills are a formation of wind-deposited loess soil in the westernmost parts of Iowa and Missouri, and the easternmost parts of Nebraska and Kansas, along the Missouri River.
Geology
The Loess (, , or ) Hills are generally located be ...
in the
Missouri River Valley
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. The settlement is located on the bluffs along
Forbes Creek Forbes Creek may refer to one of the following:
*Forbes Creek (California)
Forbes Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 10, 2011 watercourse in Lake County, Ca ...
. It is located approximately eight miles southeast of Forest City and ten miles west of Amazonia. Due to a bend in the nearby
Missouri River
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, the state of
Kansas
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is about three miles east, south, and west of Forbes.
Recreation
Two Missouri state
conservation areas
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Monkey Mountain Conservation Area
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to its east.
Education
Forbes is located in
South Holt R-I School District
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' ...