Possum Trot is a former town in northeastern Stone County

Stone County, Missouri

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, Missouri

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, about eight miles southwest of Nixa

Nixa, Missouri

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 on Missouri Supplemental Route

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M. Only the remains of a church and a house are left.

The general store at Possum Trot was operated by the descendants of Jackson B. and Emma Stewart Wilson, William Jasper Wilson, and his brother John Washington Wilson during the early part of the 20th Century. Part of the community was once known as Self.