Elk Creek is an unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located approximately nine miles south of Houston.

A post office called Elk Creek has been in operation since 1860.[2] The community was so named on account of the elk once abundant in the area.[3]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elk Creek, Missouri
  2. ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  3. ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1918). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 368.


Allikas: Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_Creek,_Missouri
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