Clarks Fork, Missouri
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Clarks Fork is an
unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in Cooper County, in the
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of
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. The community is located on
Missouri Route 87 Route 87 is a highway in central Missouri. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 54 in Eldon, and its northern terminus is at Route 5/240 in Glasgow. Parts of the road are overlapped by the Lewis and Clark Trail and Santa Fe Trail. Rout ...
approximately one mile southeast of the stream Clark Fork. Boonville is approximately seven miles to the northwest.


History

A post office called Clarks Fork was established in 1841, and remained in operation until 1908. The community took its name from Clark Fork.


References

Unincorporated communities in Cooper County, Missouri Unincorporated communities in Missouri {{CooperCountyMO-geo-stub