Lincoln, MO

Lincoln is a Benton County city named for Abraham Lincoln, with a post office dating to 1866 and incorporation following in 1869. The town sits in central Missouri, where the local story is less about a single landmark than the name it chose during the Civil War era and the county landscape around it. The present map puts Lincoln in the Lake of the Ozarks region, but the town itself remains a small central-Benton-County place. For a quick local read, remember the name, the 1866 post office, and the town square that grew from a nineteenth-century county settlement.