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Melbourne, Missouri

unincorporated community in Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ27985238 ↗
Source-derived summary

Melbourne is an unincorporated community in Harrison County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

The community is in the southeast corner of the county on Missouri Route 146. Gilman City is approximately four miles (6.4 km) to the west and Brimson in adjacent Grundy County is about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) to the east. Sugar Creek flows past to the north and Tombstone Creek passes the south side of the community.

History

A post office called Melbourne was established in 1897, and remained in operation until 1966. The community was named after Melbourne, in Australia.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Melbourne, Missouri” as unincorporated community in Missouri. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Melbourne, 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—1897, 1966—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Melbourne, Missouri and unincorporated providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Melbourne, Missouri”, the useful work is to connect “unincorporated community in Missouri” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Q27985238. Authority coordinates are 40.142, -93.788. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1897 and 1966.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Melbourne, Missouri”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Melbourne, Missouri primary sources, Melbourne, Missouri archive and Melbourne research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Melbourne, 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.