Editing Seneca, Missouri (section)

==History==
Seneca was [[plat]]ted by European Americans in 1869, following the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].<ref name="Eaton, David Wolfe 1917 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n106 335">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1917 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n106 335]}}</ref> The city was named for the [[Seneca people|Seneca Nation]], one of the Six Nations of the [[Iroquois League]], or ''[[Haudenosaunee]]'', who had been historically based in New York and south of the Great Lakes.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_newton.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071754/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_newton.html | archivedate = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Newton County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= November 22, 2016}}</ref>

In the 1830s, many of the [[Seneca people]] still in the East had been pushed west of the Mississippi River into [[Indian Territory]], which included parts of present-day Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. "This tribe was moved to the Indian Territory not many miles west of town.  The word is a corruption of the Dutch word ''"Sinnekaas,"'' a term applied to them."<ref name="Eaton, David Wolfe 1917 https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n106 335"/>

A post office called Seneca has been in operation since 1869.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Newton| title=Post Offices| publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>

Several houses in the rural northern Seneca area were destroyed by a tornado on May 10, 2008 in the [[Mid-May 2008 tornado outbreak sequence]]. An EF4 tornado hit the county, killing 13 people.<ref>[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/12/america/Severe-Weather-Optional.php  Pollution may have indirectly saved lives in Okla. town]; May 12, 2008; ''[[International Herald Tribune]];'' Retrieved May 12, 2008</ref> ''[[The Early Show]]'' broadcast their national weather report from the city on the following Monday morning.

On the one- year anniversary of the tornado, Bill Lant, owner of Lant's Feed and Country Store, unveiled a memorial for the people who had died in the disaster. He had donated the plot of land and memorial, and had the memorial built next to his store.