White Rock, Missouri

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White Rock is an unincorporated community in southeast Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]

The community is on Missouri Route O and is on a prominence above the Missouri River floodplain. Wakenda Creek flows past along the edge of the floodplain south of the community. De Witt is five miles to the northeast and Wakenda is five miles to the southwest. Miami is across the river to the southeast. [2] Miami Station on the Wabash Railroad is 1.5 miles to the northeast. [3]

The community was named for deposits of white rock quarried along the bluff face below the town site. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: White Rock, Missouri
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 29 ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ Miami Station, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 (1978 rev.)
  4. ↑ "Carroll County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 10 September 2016.

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