Stet, Missouri

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Stet is an unincorporated community on the Ray/Carroll County line and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.{{GNIS|727079}} It is located approximately fourteen miles northwest of Carrollton at the intersection of Missouri Supplemental Routes K and JJ.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 28 {{ISBN|0-89933-224-2}}

History

A post office called Stet was established in 1890, and remained in operation until 1973.{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Carroll&searchtext=&pagenum=3 | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=12 December 2016}} That same year, the rural route was consolidated with Norborne but the building stayed open as a contract office until 2011. The origin of the name "Stet" is obscure.{{cite book|last1=Moyer|first1=Armond|last2=Moyer|first2=Winifred|title=The origins of unusual place-names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89058322223;view=1up;seq=147|year=1958|publisher=Keystone Pub. Associates|pages=141–143}} The meaning of Stet in Latin is "let it stand."

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Ray County, Missouri

Category:Unincorporated communities in Carroll County, Missouri

Category:Unincorporated communities in Missouri