Duke, Missouri

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Duke is an unincorporated community in southwest Phelps County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located approximately thirteen miles northwest of Licking and five miles east of Fort Leonard Wood. The community is on Missouri Route K and two miles east of a meander in the Big Piney River in the Mark Twain National Forest. [2]

A post office called Duke has been in operation since 1906. [3] The community was named after Duke's Mixture, a brand of pipe tobacco sold at the local country store. [4]

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Duke, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  4. "Phelps County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.

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