Hines Landing, Missouri

Hines Landing is an unincorporated community in Cape Girardeau County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

The community has the name of the local Hines family.[2] Morton J. Hines was authorized to operate a ferry on the Mississippi River at this point in the 1860s.[3]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hines Landing, Missouri
  2. "Cape Girardeau County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.
  3. Missouri (1861). Acts of the ... General Assembly of the State of Missouri. Isaac N. Henry. p. 551.

Coordinates: 37°33′28″N 89°31′35″W / 37.55778°N 89.52639°W / 37.55778; -89.52639


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