Duke, Missouri

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Duke is an unincorporated community in southwest Phelps County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located approximately thirteen miles northwest of Licking and five miles east of Fort Leonard Wood. The community is on Missouri Route K and two miles east of a meander in the Big Piney River in the Mark Twain National Forest.[2]

The post office opened in 1906 & ran for decades, it is no longer open. Residents have to go to Newburg, MO to find the nearest post office.[3] The community was named after Duke's Mixture, a brand of pipe tobacco sold at the local country store.[4]

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  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54, Template:ISBN
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