Mountain Dale is an unincorporated community in southeastern Webster County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located on Missouri Route C, approximately 2.5 miles north of Seymour and just south of the James River headwaters. The Mountain Dale cemetery lies about one-quarter mile to the west.Seymour, Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982 Owen Field airstrip and the community of Waldo lie about three-quarters of a mile to the east, along Missouri Route V.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 53,
The community took its name from a former school built about 1865. The school was located near a mountain and a dale, hence the name, Mountain Dale.
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