Shook 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 Wayne County,

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, United States. The community is located on the West Fork Lost Creek arm of

Lake Wappapello Lake Wappapello is a reservoir on the St. Francis River, formed by Wappapello Dam (). Created in 1938, this lake is located south of St. Louis, Missouri. The reservoir lies mostly in Wayne County, but its southernmost reaches (near the dam) ...

along

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, approximately sixteen miles north of

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. The Shook post office was in operation from 1904 to 1999. The community has the name of George Shook, an early settler.

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