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Lois, Missouri

unincorporated community in Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ27985879 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lois is an unincorporated community in eastern Maries County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

The community is at the intersection of county roads 452 and 453 approximately one-half mile southeast of Missouri Route 28. Vichy is about two miles south on US Route 63 and Lanes Prairie is three miles north on Route 28. Spring Creek Gap Conservation Area is one mile to the west.

History

A post office called Lois was established in 1889, and remained in operation until 1912. The community has the name of Lois Cordsmeyer, a young citizen.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Lois, Missouri” as unincorporated community in Missouri. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Lois, Missouri and unincorporated.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1889, 1912—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Lois, Missouri and unincorporated providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q27985879. Authority coordinates are 38.148, -91.756. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1889 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lois, Missouri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.