Elmo, MO

Elmo is a city in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 114 residents. The community most likely was named after the novel St. Elmo. Elmo is about five miles west of Clearmont, four miles south of the Iowa border, and about eleven mile east of Westboro in Atchison County. The secondary school is West Nodaway High School. The short version is that Elmo carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Elmo: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Mill Creek flows past Elmo to its southwest; Jerry Creek and Moss Branch pass by Elmo, to the north and the south respectively, and join Mill Creek nearby Elmo.