Huggins, Missouri

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Huggins
Unincorporated community
Etymology: F. M. Huggins
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Coordinates: 37°19′12″N92°11′55″W / 37.32000°N 92.19861°W / 37.32000; -92.19861
CountryUSA
StateMissouri
CountyTexas

Huggins is an unincorporated community in western Texas County, Missouri, United States, approximately thirteen miles west of Houston. [1] It is located on Route M, about two miles north of Route 38, near Bendavis. [2]

History

A post office called Huggins has been in operation since 1885. [3] Francis M. Huggins, an early postmaster, gave the community his last name. [4] [5]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Huggins, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  4. "Texas County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. Eaton, David Wolfe (1918). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 368.