Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.
Owasco is an
unincorporated community in
Sullivan County , in the
U.S. state of
Missouri .
[1]
The community is on
Missouri Route V approximately 8.5 miles southeast of
Milan . The community of
Mystic on
Missouri Route 129 is about 2.5 miles to the northeast. The community is on a ridge between East and West
Yellow Creeks .
[2]
History
A post office called Owasco was established in 1858, and remained in operation until 1919.
[3] Owasco is an
Indian name for "bridge".
[4] Besides the post office, Owasco had a country store.
[5]
References
^
U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Owasco, Missouri
^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 22
ISBN
0899332242
^
"Post Offices" . Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1918).
How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named . The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 367.
^
"Sullivan County Place Names, 1928–1945" . The State Historical Society of Missouri.
Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016 .
40°08′17″N 92°58′41″W / 40.13806°N 92.97806°W / 40.13806; -92.97806