Pleasant Gap is an unincorporated community in southeastern Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
The community is on Missouri Route 0 approximately ten miles southeast of Butler.
[2] It was so named from its scenic setting in a gap.
[3] A post office called Pleasant Gap was established in 1840, and remained in operation until 1918.
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