Editing Corning, Missouri (section)

==History==
Corning was laid out in the fall of 1868<ref name="NW">{{cite book |last= Williams|first= Walter|date= 1915|title= A History of Northwest Missouri Volume I|publisher= The Lewis Publishing Company|page= 540}}</ref> on main line of the railroad between [[Kansas City, Missouri]] and [[Council Bluffs, Iowa]] (the line remains active).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_holt.html |title=Holt County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=October 8, 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070426/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_holt.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 }}</ref> A post office called Corning was in operation from 1868 to 1964, but changed its name to Corning Rural Station and continued until 1995.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Holt | title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=October 8, 2016}}</ref> The plat for the town was filed on May 24th, 1879.<ref name="GH">{{cite book | title=Gone home: Directory of the deceased and items of history of Holt County, Missouri, 1837-1981 | publisher=Holt County Missouri Historical Society | author=Derr, Eileen | year=1981}}</ref>

From 1882 to 1980, a spur located southeast of town owned by the Burlington operated between Corning and [[Clarinda, Iowa]] initially under the name of the Tarkio Valley Railroad.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.abandonedrails.com/clarinda-to-corning | title=Clarinda, IA to Corning, MO - Abandoned Rails }}</ref><ref name="Holt1898">{{cite web|url=https://digital.shsmo.org/digital/collection/plat/id/1986|title=Standard atlas of Holt County, Missouri, 1898|publisher=Chicago, Ill: Geo. A. Ogle & Co.|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref>

The village's [[St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Corning, Missouri)|St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church]] was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/mo/holt/state.html | title=MISSOURI - Holt County | publisher=nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com | accessdate=October 8, 2016}}</ref>

Corning was impacted by the [[2019 Midwestern U.S. floods]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://insideclimatenews.org/american-climate/essay/loss|title=The Common Language of Loss|last=Banerjee|first=Neela|date=November 25, 2019|website=[[InsideClimate News]]|language=en-US|access-date=December 8, 2019}}</ref>