Crooked River Township, Ray County, Missouri

Crooked River Township is an inactive township in Ray County, in the U.S. state of Missouri and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.[1]

History

Crooked River Township was founded in 1823. It was named from the river that runs through it.[2]

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References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Crooked River Township, Ray County, Missouri
  2. Eaton, David Wolfe (1917). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 346.



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