Pilot Grove, Missouri - Population 768
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 38° 52.789 W 092° 54.494
15S E 507959 N 4303444
I have three for this town....not sure how many there are...
Waymark Code: WM1222F
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 02/06/2020
Views: 2
County of sign: Cooper County
Location of sign: MO-M, North Limits, Pilot Grove
Sign Text:
CITY LIMITS
PILOT GROVE
POP 768
"When travelers were passing from Boonville to Independence, or in the neighborhood of this route, as it led through the township, they were enabled at once to determine their position by the small grove of trees which were plainly visible for miles around. Very little of the present timber was in existence except as low brush, so that the group of trees standing prominently above all the rest proved a pilot to the traveler in his journey across the extensive prairie. Hence the name Pilot Grove." The town was laid out in 1873." ~ History of Cooper County, 1876, Stearns & Drake, p. 227; Gannett, p. 246