Buck Mountain is a
summit in
Madison County in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Missouri
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...
. The summit has an elevation of .
Buck Mountain was so named because the area was the hunting ground of bucks by early settlers.
References
Mountains of Madison County, Missouri
Mountains of Missouri
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