Milltown, Missouri

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Milltown, Missouri
Unincorporated community
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Milltown
Coordinates: 36°46′39″N90°36′18″W / 36.77750°N 90.60500°W / 36.77750; -90.60500
Country United States
State Missouri
County Butler
Elevation
440 ft (130 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code 573
GNIS feature ID751105 [1]

Milltown is an unincorporated community in western Butler County, Missouri, United States. [1] [2] Milltown is located on Hurricane Creek, approximately two miles west of its confluence with Tenmile Creek, as well as Beaverdam Creek, which is two miles northwest. [2] It lies within the Mark Twain National Forest, about ten miles west of Poplar Bluff. [3]

The village was alternately known as Kerens. [1] An early post office existed at the location with the name of Kerens. The post office was named for R.C. Kerens who was a St. Louis postmaster. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Milltown on GNIS
  2. 1 2 Stringtown, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980
  3. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 66-67, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  4. ↑ Butler County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived). The State Historical Society of Missouri
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