Plevna is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southeastern Knox County, Missouri, United States.[2] It is located approximately 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Edina on Missouri Route 15. As of the 2020 census, its population was 7.[3]

Plevna was platted in 1877.[4] According to author and name historian Robert Ramsay, the community is named after Plevna, Bulgaria,[5][6] site of a Russian victory at the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War. A post office was established at Plevna in 1877.[7]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
20207—
U.S. Decennial Census[8]

References

  1. ^ "ArcGIS REST Services Directory". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved August 28, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Plevna, Missouri
  3. ^ "2020: DEC Redistricting Data (PL 94-171)". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  4. ^ "Knox County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved October 23, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  5. ^ Our Storehouse of Missouri Place Names 2nd edition. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. 1973. ISBN 0-8262-0586-0.
  6. ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 182.
  7. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved October 23, 2016.
  8. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.


Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plevna,_Missouri
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