Editing Washburn, Missouri (section)

=== Washburn 1868–Present ===
The community of Washburn, formerly Keetsville, was officially incorporated as a town on August 4, 1880,<ref name="thelibrary.org"/> though it is unclear if O’Day ever incorporated as a separate town. The two communities continued as separate entities through the 1880s and into the 1890s, when in 1892 the O’Day post office was disestablished<ref name="ReferenceA"/> and the Washburn post office took over for a newly consolidated community, a consolidation that was likely prompted by the building of a public school between the two communities.<ref name="Goodspeed's History Pages 700"/>