West Quincy, Missouri
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West Quincy, Missouri is a small commercial area in northeast Marion County, Missouri on U.S. Route 24. It has no permanent residents.
[edit] History
West Quincy is directly across the Mississippi River from Quincy, Illinois and once housed a train station, drive-in theater, and corporation. However, since the flood of 1993, many businesses have left.
Knapheide was the corporation once located here, it is now located in the north end of Quincy, Illinois.
A tornado hit the drive-in theater and nearly crossed to Quincy but receded once it hit the bluffs.
During the flood of 1993, the levee was sabotaged and water filled the floodplain, and a nearby barge was sucked into the break in the levee. It hit a local gas station and caused an explosion. Oil caught fire and the fire snaked across the water.
During the flood of 1993, the Quincy bridges were closed, and if you lived on the other side of the river you had to drive to either Saint Louis or the Quad Cities to cross the enormous river.
