Swedeborg is an
unincorporated community
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in northwestern
Pulaski County,
Missouri
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, United States. It is located approximately five miles northeast of
Richland on
Route 133.
History
Swedeborg was
plat
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ted in 1878, and named for the fact a large share of the first settlers were Swedish. A post office called Swedeborg has been in operation since 1881.
Education
Swedeborg is best known in Pulaski County for being the home of the Swedeborg R-III School District,
which is the county's last remaining K-8 district. Along with Laquey, Missouri, Laquey, it is one of only two unincorporated communities in Pulaski County to retain its own school district.
Transportation
Major north-south routes near Swedeborg include:
* Route 133 runs north from Interstate 44
Interstate 44 (I-44) is a major Interstate Highway in the central United States. Although it is nominally an east–west road as it is even-numbered, it follows a more southwest–northeast alignment. Its western terminus is in Wichita Fal ...
, exit 145, approximately two miles east of Hazelgreen to Richland, Swedeborg, Crocker
Crocker is an archaic synonym of potter.
People and fictional characters
* Crocker (name)
Places Malaysia
*Crocker Range of mountains in Borneo
**Crocker Range National Park
United Kingdom
* Crocker End, hamlet in Oxfordshire, England
U ...
, and about two miles west of Dixon Dixon may refer to:
Places International
* Dixon Entrance, part of the Inside Passage between Alaska and British Columbia
Canada
* Dixon, Ontario
United States
* Dixon, California
* Dixon, Illinois
* Dixon, Greene County, Indiana
* Dixon, Indi ...
, then north out of the county.
* Route 17 crosses Interstate 44 at exit 153 at Buckhorn, runs east through Waynesville, turns north to Crocker, and then runs north out of the county to Iberia
The Iberian Peninsula (),
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* Aragonese and Occitan: ''Peninsula Iberica''
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* french: Péninsule Ibérique
* mwl, Península Eibérica
* eu, Iberiar penintsula also known as Iberia, is a peninsula
A peninsula (; ) is a la ...
.
* Missouri Highway T runs north from Highway 17 at Waynesville to Swedeborg, where it meets and ends at Highway 133, about halfway between Richland and Crocker.
Notes
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Unincorporated communities in Pulaski County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri