Splitlog 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 western
McDonald County, in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Missouri
Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...
. The community is located approximately four miles northwest of
Anderson and 1.5 miles west of
Elliff on
Missouri Route 59
Route 59 is a highway in southwest Missouri running from the Arkansas state line north to Interstate 44 in Missouri, I-44/Interstate 49 in Missouri, I-49 at Fidelity, Missouri, Fidelity. It replaced a large section of U.S. Route 71 and U.S. R ...
.
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 60, ]
History
Mathias Splitlog was a member of the
Wyandot people
The Wyandot people (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Waⁿdát, or Huron) are an Indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands of the present-day United States and Canada. Their Wyandot language belongs to the Iroquoian languages, Iroquoian language f ...
, named for his childhood apprenticeship to a carpenter, and known initially for the lumber industry he founded in
Wyandotte, Kansas. A self-educated engineer, real estate speculator, and a businessman in the Missouri mining industry, Mathias plated the town site of Splitlog. A post office for Splitlog was established in 1887, and remained in operation until 1906.
References
Unincorporated communities in McDonald County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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