Cedar Gap, Missouri

Cedar Gap is an unincorporated community in southwestern Wright County, Missouri, United States.

[1] Cedar Gap lies just south of US Route 60 between Mansfield to the east and Seymour in adjacent Webster County to the west.

[2] Cedar Gap, at an elevation of 1,694 feet (516 m),[3] was established in 1882 as a station on the Springfield – Memphis line of the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway.

It was named for the cedar trees and the topographic "gaps" which had to be bridged by the railroad in the more rugged terrain of the Lead Hill area 1.8 miles (2.9 km) to the east, the second highest point in Missouri at 1,744 feet (532 m).

[4][5] The early railroad also constructed a dam to form the 40 acre Cedar Gap Lake one mile to the northwest on the Wright–Webster county line as a water supply for the steam engined trains.