Elkland, Missouri

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Elkland is an unincorporated community in northwestern Webster County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located on Route 38, approximately ten miles northwest of Marshfield. Elkland is part of the Springfield, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.

A post office called Elkland has been in operation since 1870. [2] The community so named on account of the presence of elk near the original town site. [3]

In 1987, Elkland resident James Schnick murdered seven of his relatives, and attempted to frame his nephew, Kirk Buckner, who was among his victims. [4]

In 2018, Elkland resident Helen Viola Jackson was inducted into the Missouri Walk of Fame Jackson is notable as the last living widow of a Civil War Veteran.

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elkland, Missouri
  2. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 1 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Webster County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Auguries of Innocence," Time, October 19, 1987

Coordinates: 37°26′35″N93°01′52″W / 37.44306°N 93.03111°W / 37.44306; -93.03111


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