Competition is an Unincorporated community in southern Laclede County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately seventeen miles southeast of Lebanon. It is on Missouri Route Z about one-half mile north of the Laclede-Wright county line. Lynchburg is approximately seven miles to the east. The Gasconade River flows past one mile to the east.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 53,
Competition was originally called "Newburg", and under the latter name, settlement was made in the 1840s. A post office under the town name of Competition was established in 1858, and remained in operation until 1967. A naming competition accounts for the present name.
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