Grogan, Missouri

Extinct town in Missouri, U.S.

Grogan is an extinct town in southern Texas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The GNIS classifies it as a populated place.^[1]

The community is on a hillside above the North Prong of Jacks Fork River. The town is approximately eleven miles east-northeast of Cabool and eleven miles south-southeast of Houston.^[2]

A post office called Grogan was established in 1897, and remained in operation until 1954.^[3] The community has the name of J. E. Grogan, the original owner of the town site.^[4]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Grogan
^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed. 1998, p. 54 ISBN 0899332242
^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
^ "Texas County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.