Venable, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} '''Venable''' is an unincorporated community in northwest Texas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.<ref>{{GNIS|735323}}</ref>

The community is on a ridge at the east end of Missouri Route AA and Ellis Prairie is approximately 2.5 miles west on Route AA. The old Venable School was about three-quarters of a mile to the north-northeast. It is about six miles north-northwest of Houston. The Big Piney River is about two miles to the east.<ref>''Presscott, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 (1981 rev.)</ref><ref>''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54, {{ISBN|0-89933-224-2}}</ref>

==History== A post office called Venable was established in 1891, and remained in operation until 1920.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Texas | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=28 December 2016}}</ref> The community has the name of P. S. Venable, an early citizen.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_texas.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071622/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_texas.html | archive-date = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Texas County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= December 28, 2016}}</ref>

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Texas County, Missouri Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri