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Bunnville

Ghost town · Vernon County, Missouri

Deerfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:24,000)
Deerfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:24,000) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Bunnville is a ghost town in Vernon County, Missouri. It is one of 6 former communities in Vernon County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 32nd among the 102 Missouri counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Bunnville as a historical populated place on the Deerfield topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 37.8434° N, 94.5833° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleDeerfield
Elevation810 ft
Nearest living townDeerfield, MO
Distance to it4.1 miles
GNIS feature ID748341
Coordinates37.84337, -94.58329

Open the location on a map

Then and now

Drag the slider: the old USGS map on the left, the same ground from the air today on the right. Both cover the same 1.9-mile square centred on the recorded location.

Bunnville today, aerial view
Deerfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:24,000)

Left: Deerfield quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1939, 1:24,000), U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection. Right: The same ground today: NAIP aerial imagery, USDA Farm Service Agency, National Agriculture Imagery Program (via USGS). Both public domain.

What's there now

Bunnville is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Deerfield, MO (population 39), about 4.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 810 feet above sea level. The aerial view above shows what covers the ground today. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.

Nearby places

Questions

Where is Bunnville?

Bunnville is in Vernon County, Missouri, at 37.8434, -94.5833.

How many ghost towns are in Vernon County?

Vernon County, Missouri has 6 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.

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Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-06.