McGirk, Missouri

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McGirk is an unincorporated community in eastern Moniteau County, Missouri, United States. [1] It is located approximately five miles east of California on old U.S. Route 50.

A post office called McGirk has been in operation since 1881. [2] The community has the name of the local McGirk family. [3] [4]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: McGirk, Missouri
  2. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
  3. ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1917). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp.  333.
  4. ↑ "Moniteau County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016.

38°36′40″N92°28′35″W / 38.61111°N 92.47639°W / 38.61111; -92.47639

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