Owls Bend, Missouri

Owls Bend is an unincorporated community in eastern Shannon County, in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, United States.[1] The community is located adjacent to the Current River, northeast of the Missouri Route 106 crossing and the Powder Mill Creek campground.[2]

History

A post office called Owls Bend was established in 1923, and remained in operation until 1955.[3] The community was so named on account of the abundance of owls at a nearby meander on the Current River.[4]

The community includes Owl's Bend Site, a Native American archaeological site placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.[5]

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gollark: Full lockdowns are maybe not great, but charizard was advocating distancing + masks.
gollark: Apparently vaccine trials have a 1/3 success rate in general, which is pretty high, and there's relevant information from SARS to use, and tons of vaccine trials running, so I figure *some* should be available fairly soon.
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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Owls Bend, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 55, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 25 December 2016.
  4. "Shannon County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 25, 2016.
  5. "MISSOURI - Shannon County". nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved 25 December 2016.



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