Union City is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in Stone County

Stone County, Missouri

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, Missouri

Missouri

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, United States

United States

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. It is located about five miles south of Clever

Clever, Missouri

Clever is a city in Christian County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,809 as of the 2009 census. It is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area. They have recently built a new high school and library. For being a small town they have some good businesses and are...

 on Missouri Supplemental Route

Missouri Supplemental Route

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s M and K.
Union City was a Union Army camp during the Civil War. A small train station was built there (it still stands, but the old railroad itself was removed and converted to a road, Route K, during the Get Missouri Out Of The Mud

Get Missouri Out Of The Mud

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 movement of the 1950s).

The community is part of the Branson, Missouri

Branson, Missouri

Branson is a city in Taney County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was named after Reuben Branson, postmaster and operator of a general store in the area in the 1880s....

 Micropolitan Statistical Area

Branson micropolitan area

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The adjacent area to the east of Union City and south of Possum Trot

Possum Trot, Missouri

Possum Trot is a former town in northeastern Stone County, Missouri, United States, about eight miles southwest of Nixa on Missouri Supplemental Route M. Only the remains of a church and a house are left....

is known as Union Ridge, and a church was built there in 1896. On the day of the church building dedication, several drunk, rowdy young men arrived at the outdoor dinner gathering. For reasons believed to involve a young lady, a knife fight broke out and a number of people were badly injured. As a result, area residents referred to the church as "the Bloody Ridge Baptist Church", a name that stuck for several generations.

South of Union Ridge and east of Union City is Silver Lake, an impoundment that was dammed in 1865 by Davis Kimberling for the purpose of powering a feed and flour mill. It is now a recreational area.