Nashville, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri}}

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|area_total_km2 = 125.9

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|population_as_of = 2000

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|population_total = 396

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|timezone = Central (CST)

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Nashville is a small unincorporated community in southwestern Barton County one mile north of the Barton-Jasper county line, near the western border of Missouri, United States. It is on Missouri Route AA one mile west of Route 43. The community is approximately twelve miles southwest of Lamar and 22 miles north of Joplin.Nashville, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1962

Developed in a rural, farming area, Nashville was platted in 1869 after the American Civil War.{{cite web | url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_barton.html | title=Barton County Place Names, 1928-1945 (archived) | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | access-date=31 August 2016 | url-status=bot: unknown | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071541/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_barton.html | archivedate=24 June 2016 }} The name is a transfer from Nashville, Tennessee. A post office called Nashville had been established in 1861, and remained in operation until 1959.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?state=MO | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=27 August 2016}}

Harlow Shapley was born at Nashville in 1885. He became a notable American astronomer and was director of the Harvard College Observatory (1921–1952).{{cite book|last=Kuehn|first=Kerry|title=A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume I: The Heavens and The Earth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__qJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA273|date=15 September 2014|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4939-1360-2|page=273}}