Phelps City, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Phelps City, Missouri | settlement_type = Unincorporated community | nickname = | motto =  | image_skyline = File:PhelpsCityMO.jpg | imagesize = 250 | image_caption = View of Phelps City, Missouri, north of U.S. Highway 136 | image_flag = | image_seal =  | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | image_map1 = | mapsize1 = | map_caption1 = | pushpin_map = Missouri | pushpin_label = Phelps City

| subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{nowrap|{{flagu|United States}}}} | subdivision_type1 = State | subdivision_name1 = {{flag|Missouri}} | subdivision_type2 = County | subdivision_name2 = Atchison | subdivision_type3 = Township | subdivision_name3 = Templeton

| government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title1 = | leader_name1 = | established_title = | established_date =  | unit_pref = Imperial | area_footnotes = <ref name="TigerWebMapServer">{{cite web|title=ArcGIS REST Services Directory|url=https://tigerweb.geo.census.gov/arcgis/rest/services/TIGERweb/Places_CouSub_ConCity_SubMCD/MapServer|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=August 28, 2022}}</ref> | area_magnitude = | area_total_km2 = 1.28 | area_land_km2 = 1.28 | area_water_km2 = 0.00 | area_total_sq_mi = 0.49 | area_land_sq_mi = 0.49 | area_water_sq_mi = 0.00

| timezone = Central (CST) | utc_offset = -6 | timezone_DST = CDT | utc_offset_DST = -5 | elevation_footnotes = <ref name=gnis/> | elevation_ft = 889 | coordinates = {{coord|40|24|02|N|95|35|42|W|region:US-MO|display=inline,title}}

| postal_code_type = | postal_code = | area_code = 660 | blank_name = GNIS feature ID | blank_info = 2587101<ref name=gnis>{{cite gnis|2587101|Phelps City}}</ref> | blank1_name = | blank1_info = | website = | footnotes = |pop_est_as_of = |pop_est_footnotes = |population_est = }} '''Phelps City''' is an unincorporated community in Atchison County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 0, down from 24 in 2010. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=1600000US2957332|access-date=2021-12-16|website=data.census.gov}}</ref> The community is {{convert|5|mi|km}} west of Rock Port. It is the closest Missouri community to Brownville Bridge, a Missouri River crossing that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

==History== Phelps City was platted in 1868.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_atchison.html| title=Atchison County Place Names, 1928-1945 (archived)| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date=30 August 2016| url-status=bot: unknown| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070306/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_atchison.html| archive-date=24 June 2016| df=}}</ref> The community was named for Willis Phelps, one of the owners of the town site.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n14 203]}}</ref> A post office was established at Phelps City in 1868, and remained in operation until 1954.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=MO | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=30 August 2016}}</ref> The settlement is located along the main line of the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad,<ref name="NW">{{cite book |last= Williams|first= Walter|date= 1915|title= A History of Northwest Missouri Volume I|publisher= The Lewis Publishing Company|page= 334}}</ref> and there was a train station called Phelps Station.<ref name="NIAW">{{cite book|title=New International Atlas of the World: The Self Revising Atlas|publisher=Geographical Publishing Company|year=1944|editor=Branom, Frederick K.}}</ref> In 1904, there were a couple dozen homes and two churches in the town.<ref name="AtchPlat1904">{{cite web|url=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/4788/|title=Plat book of Atchison County, Missouri 1904|publisher=Minneapolis, Minn. : Northwest Publishing Company|access-date=August 14, 2025}}</ref> The Missouri River floods of the 2010s, especially the 2019 flood, heavily affected this community and largely led to its diminution. The BNSF Railway still runs trains daily through Phelps on the Napier Subdivision.<ref name="BNSF_map">{{cite web|url=https://www.bnsf.com/bnsf-resources/pdf/ship-with-bnsf/maps-and-shipping-locations/bnsf-network-map.pdf|access-date=November 18, 2025|title=BNSF Railway Map|publisher=BNSF}}</ref>

==Demographics== {{US Census population |align=left |1900= 167 |1910= 97 |1920= 100 |1930= 94 |1940= 195 |1950= 139 |1960= 81 |1970= 76 |1980= 39 |1990= 32 |2010= 24 |2020= 0 |footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}</ref> }}{{clear left}} Phelps City is no longer considered a census-designated place by the State of Missouri.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Official manual - Chapter 8: Cities and Counties | url=https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/bluebook/2023-2024/8_Counties.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227010342/https://www.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/bluebook/2023-2024/8_Counties.pdf | archive-date=2024-02-27}}</ref>

==Education== The school district is Rock Port R-II School District.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st29_mo/schooldistrict_maps/c29005_atchison/DC20SD_C29005.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Atchison County, MO|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2024-12-15}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st29_mo/schooldistrict_maps/c29005_atchison/DC20SD_C29005_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref> Rock Port High School is the zoned comprehensive high school.

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Atchison County, Missouri Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri Category:Populated places in the United States established in 1868 Category:1868 establishments in Missouri