Cave Spring, Missouri

Cave Spring or Cave Springs is an unincorporated community in Cass Township, Greene County, Missouri, United States.[1] The community is on Missouri Route AC, 1.3 miles east of Pearl and Missouri Route 123. The community lies on the east bank of Asher Creek.[2]

A post office called Cave Spring was established in 1871, and remained in operation until 1907.[3] The community was named for a large spring flowing out of a cave on nearby Asher Creek.[4]

Notes

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Cave Spring, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 51, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on October 3, 2016. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 170.

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