Speed 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
Palestine Township,
Cooper County, Missouri, United States.
Geography
Speed is located along
Missouri Route F
A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated with letters. Supplemental routes were various roads within the state which the Missouri Department of Transportation was given in 1952 to maintain in add ...
on the west bank of
Stephens Branch of
Petite Saline Creek, four miles north of
Bunceton.
Boonville is nine miles to the north-northeast. The community of
Bellair is two miles to the west on
Missouri Route 5
Missouri Route 5 is the longest state highway in Missouri and the only Missouri state highway to traverse the entire state. To the north, it continues into Iowa as Iowa Highway 5 and to the south it enters Arkansas as Arkansas Highway 5 as pa ...
.
History
Speed was originally named New Palestine, and under the latter name was laid out in 1868.
The present name is after Austin Speed, a railroad official.
A post office called New Palestine was established in 1869, the name was changed to Speed in 1898, and the post office closed in 1955.
References
Unincorporated communities in Cooper County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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