Durgen, Missouri

Durgen is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

History

Durgen was platted in 1860.[1] The community took its name from nearby Durgens Creek.[2] A post office called Durgen's Creek was established in 1855, the name was changed to Durgen in 1895, and the post office closed in 1905.[3]

gollark: We might end up seeing Chinese (don't think Chinese is an actual language - Mandarin or whatever) with English technical terms mixed in.
gollark: Yes, because they have been (are? not sure) lagging behind with modern technological things, and so need(ed?) to use English-programmed English-documented things.
gollark: Which means piles of technical docs are in English, *programs* are in English, people working on technological things are using English a lot...It probably helps a bit that English is easy to type and ASCII text can be handled by basically any system around.
gollark: I don't think it was decided on for any sort of sane reason. English-speaking countries just dominated in technology.
gollark: It's probably quite a significant factor in pushing English adoption.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Durgen
  2. "Lewis County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 28 October 2016. Retrieved 26 October 2016.



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