Trask, Missouri

Trask is an unincorporated community in northern Howell County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] The community is located on Missouri Route V, approximately one mile south of U.S. Route 60 between Willow Springs and Mountain View.[2]

History

A post office called Trask was established in 1894, and remained in operation until 1933.[3] The community has the name of the local Trask family.[4]

gollark: I think she means "technology" as in "whatever wasn't around in my childhood".
gollark: . ..
gollark: And that without "technology" we'd be hunter-gatherers, struggle to stay alive, have a life expectancy of a few decades tops, and have far worse quality of life.
gollark: Please tell her that I said that it's horrendously ill-defined to say technology.
gollark: Ah, of course.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Trask, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 64, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. "Howell County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)



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