Speed is an unincorporated community in Palestine Township, Cooper County, Missouri, United States.
Geography Speed is located along Missouri Route F on the west bank of Stephens Branch of Petite Saline Creek, four miles north of Bunceton. Boonville is nine miles to the north-northeast. The community of Bellair is two miles to the west on Missouri Route 5.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 37,
History Speed was originally named New Palestine, and under the latter name was laid out in 1868. The present name is after Austin Speed, a railroad official. A post office called New Palestine was established in 1869, the name was changed to Speed in 1898, and the post office closed in 1955.
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