{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} '''Arbor''' is an unincorporated community in Cape Girardeau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.<ref>{{GNIS|713366}}</ref> It is located between Delta, Missouri and Advance, Missouri on Missouri Highway 25.
==History== A post office called Arbor was established in 1884, and remained in operation until 1928.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=MO |title=Post Offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=8 September 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306175959/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=MO |archivedate=6 March 2016 }}</ref> The community most likely was named for a brush arbor near the original town site.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_cape_girardeau.html |title=Cape Girardeau County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=8 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071746/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_cape_girardeau.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}</ref>
In 1925, Arbor had 83 inhabitants.<ref name="Rand McNally and Company 1925 p. 259">{{cite book | author=Rand McNally and Company | title=Premier Atlas of the World: Containing Maps of All Countries of the World, with the Most Recent Boundary Decisions, and Maps of All the States, Territories, and Possessions of the United States with Population Figures from the Latest Official Census Reports, Also Data of Interest Concerning International and Domestic Political Questions | publisher=Rand McNally & Company | year=1925 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WqRRAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA259 | access-date=2023-02-19 | page=259}}</ref>
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri
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