Lodi, Missouri

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Lodi is an unincorporated community in Wayne County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Bennett Creek, just east of the St. Francis River. U.S. Route 67 passes through the community, approximately thirteen miles northeast of Piedmont. The Coldwater Conservation Area lies to the northeast of Lodi and Sam A. Baker State Park lies to the west across the St. Francis River.Coldwater, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 57, {{ISBN|0-89933-224-2}}

A post office called Lodi has been in operation since 1892.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Wayne | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=1 January 2017}} The name most likely is a transfer from Lodi, Italy.{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_wayne.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071734/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_wayne.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 |url-status=live |title=Wayne County Place Names, 1928–1945 |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=January 1, 2017 }}