Philadelphia, MO

Philadelphia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in western Marion County, Missouri, United States. Philadelphia is located 12 miles west of Palmyra on Missouri Route 168. The community is part of the Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area. The short version is that Philadelphia carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Philadelphia: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Philadelphia was platted in 1835. The community was named after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia is in western Marion County, 12 miles west of Palmyra, the county seat, 16 miles north of Monroe City, 18 miles east of Shelbyville, and 13 miles south of Ewing.