Pottersville, Missouri facts for kids
Pottersville is a small, quiet place in Howell County, Missouri, in the United States. It's known as an unincorporated hamlet, which means it's a small community that doesn't have its own local government like a city or town does. Instead, it's part of the larger county.
Discovering Pottersville
Pottersville is located about ten miles (which is about 16 kilometers) west of a larger town called West Plains. If you visit Pottersville today, you'll find a few homes, a post office, and a fire station. It's a small community where people live and work. The special mail code, called a ZIP Code, for Pottersville is 65790.
The Story Behind the Name
The post office in Pottersville has been serving the community for a very long time, ever since 1860! The community itself was named after a person named Joel M. Potter. He was the original owner of the land where Pottersville is now located. It's common for places to be named after important people or features from their early history.
