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Madelaine

Ghost town · Daviess County, Missouri

Gilman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1925, 1:62,500)
Gilman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1925, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Madelaine is a ghost town in Daviess County, Missouri. It is one of 2 former communities in Daviess County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 85th among the 102 Missouri counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Madelaine as a historical populated place on the Jameson 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 40.1189° N, 93.9111° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleJameson
Elevation898 ft
Nearest living townGilman City, MO
Distance to it2.1 miles
GNIS feature ID740192
Coordinates40.11889, -93.91106

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.

Madelaine today, aerial view
Gilman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1925, 1:62,500)

Left: Gilman quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1925, 1:62,500), 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

Madelaine is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Gilman City, MO (population 355), about 2.1 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 898 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 Madelaine?

Madelaine is in Daviess County, Missouri, at 40.1189, -93.9111.

How many ghost towns are in Daviess County?

Daviess County, Missouri has 2 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.