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Tunas is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in northern
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,
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, United States. It lies fourteen miles north of Buffalo on Route 73 and approximately seven miles east of
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on Route D. The town is located on Route 73, just southwest of the
Little Niangua River The Little Niangua River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 tributary of the Niangua River in the Ozarks region of central Missouri in the United States. ...
. Tunas is part of the
Springfield, Missouri Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. The city's population was 169,176 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Springfield metropolitan area, which had an estimat ...
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. A post office called Tunas has been in operation since 1893. The etymology of the name Tunas is obscure. The ZIP Code for Tunas is 65764.


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Unincorporated communities in Dallas County, Missouri Springfield metropolitan area, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{DallasMO-geo-stub