Rucker, Boone County, Missouri

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Rucker is an unincorporated community in the northwest corner of Boone County, Missouri, United States. [1] The community is located at the intersection of Missouri routes T and F about 6.5 miles north of Harrisburg. The site lies between Perche Creek and Sugar Creek. [2]

Boone County, Missouri U.S. county in Missouri

Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri. Centrally located in Mid-Missouri, it is home to Columbia, Missouri's fourth largest city and location of the University of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 162,642; a 2017 estimate put the population at 178,271, making it the state's seventh-most populous county. The county was organized November 16, 1820 and named for the recently deceased Daniel Boone, whose kin largely populated the Boonslick area, having arrived in the 1810s on the Boone's Lick Road. Boone County comprises the Columbia Metropolitan Area. The towns of Ashland and Centralia are the second and third most populous towns in the county.

Harrisburg, Missouri Village in Missouri, United States

Not to be confused with Hartsburg, a similarly-named settlement also in Boone County.

Perche Creek, or Roche Perche Creek is a stream in Boone and Randolph counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. Besides the Missouri River it is the largest stream in Boone County, Missouri and forms much of the western border of the city of Columbia, Missouri. The northern source is in southeast Randolph County approximately six miles south of Moberly.

History

A post office called Rucker was established in 1889, and remained in operation until 1908. [3] The community was named for Maj. John F. Rucker. [4] [5]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rucker, Boone County, Missouri
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 30, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 213.
  5. ↑ "Boone County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)

Coordinates: 39°13′53″N92°24′49″W / 39.23139°N 92.41361°W / 39.23139; -92.41361

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