Mendon, MO

Mendon is a city in western Chariton County, Missouri, United States. The 2020 census counted 163 residents. Mendon is 21 miles northwest of the county seat Keytesville and 13 miles north of Brunswick, Missouri, on Missouri Route 11. Mendon was laid out a mile and a quarter from its current location in 1871 by Christopher Shupe. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Mendon, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Mendon, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Shupe named it for his previous home place, Mendon, Illinois, which incorporated in 1867 and was named for Mendon, Massachusetts, incorporated precisely two centuries earlier, in the year 1667. Mendon is located in western Chariton County on Missouri Route 11. Yellow Creek flows past the northwest side of the town and the Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge is two miles west.