Silex, Missouri - Population 187
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YoSam.
N 39° 07.782 W 091° 03.696
15S E 667549 N 4332958
This town has suffered from several bad floods in 1993 and 2015, this sign is on the north side
Waymark Code: WMYVA1
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 07/27/2018
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County of sign: Lincoln County
Location of sign: MO-UU, about ½ mile N. of downtown Silex
Sign Text:
City Limits
Silex
Pop 187
2001 Class 1A Girls
State Basketball Champs
2006 & 2012 Class I
State Softball Champs
"A village in the western part of Union Township, twelve miles northwest of Troy. In 1880 George P. Smith operated a store at Cave City, a contractor's camp so named for a cave, just north of where Silex now stands; and when the railroad was completed to the site of the latter, he moved his stock of goods there and opened the first store in the town. The post office was established by 1886. Silex owes its name to its special formation of rock, silex, a name for silica, especially in the form of quartz." ~ History of Lincoln County, 1888, Goodspeed, page 127