Folk, Missouri

Folk is an unincorporated community in northwestern Osage County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located approximately ten miles southeast of Jefferson City.

It is on county road 505 one-quarter mile west of Route 133 and approximately five miles west of Westphalia. The Osage River flows past one mile west of the site.[2]

A post office called Folk was established in 1905, and remained in operation until 1964.[3] The community was named for former governor Joseph W. Folk.[4]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Folk
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.38, ISBN 0899332242
  3. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on November 27, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2016.
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1917). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 337.

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