Geography
Located in the north-east of Adair County, nearby communities are Eunice in the south, Pellyton in the north-east and Dunbar Hill in the north west.
History
Various sources and accounts have referred to Neatsville as a village, a postal village, a hamlet, or as a town at throughout its history.
The Neat family settled the community in the early 1800s, with Rudolf Neat the first to acquire land there. As it expanded, the community grew to encompass several stores, a hotel, a doctor's office, mills, a sawmill, distilleries, a saloon, a salt works, a cooper shop, a carding machine, and a Masonic Lodge.
It was incorporated as a town on February 23, 1847. Its post office was established on March 13, 1844, and closed in 1886. In 1848 the town's population was estimated to be around 50, and in 1876 the town's population was estimated at 60. The Masonic Lodge was relocated to Pellyton in 1917.
Relocations
Between 1901 and 1902, a major flood devastated the town, forcing its relocation from the north bank to the south bank of the Green River. At that time, the former location was abandoned. Erosion had occurred in the foundations of the buildings in the former location due to the flooding. A 1916 local account of the town's former site after the flooding characterized it as "nearly obliterated" and "in ruins".
Neatsville was later relocated to its present location sometime in the 1960s, when the Green River was impounded to enable the creation of the Green River Reservoir.