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Narrows Creek

Ghost town · Macon County, Missouri

Macon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 1:62,500)
Macon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 1:62,500) · U.S. Geological Survey, Historical Topographic Map Collection · Public domain

Narrows Creek is a ghost town in Macon County, Missouri. It is one of 6 former communities in Macon County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 38th among the 102 Missouri counties with a vanished settlement on record.

The U.S. Geological Survey lists Narrows Creek as a historical populated place on the Macon 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 39.6648° N, 92.4196° W.

Key facts

USGS quadrangleMacon
Elevation831 ft
Nearest living townExcello, MO
Distance to it3.6 miles
GNIS feature ID734188
Coordinates39.66476, -92.41963

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.

Narrows Creek today, aerial view
Macon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 1:62,500)

Left: Macon quadrangle, USGS topographic map (1908, 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

Narrows Creek is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Excello, MO (population 59), about 3.6 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 831 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 Narrows Creek?

Narrows Creek is in Macon County, Missouri, at 39.6648, -92.4196.

How many ghost towns are in Macon County?

Macon 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.