Blooming Rose is an unincorporated community in the southwest corner of Phelps County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] The community is on Missouri Route K between Beulah to the east and Duke to the north. Licking is approximately nine miles (14 km) to the southeast, in Texas County.[2]

History

Blooming Rose was named for a bed of wild roses near the original town site.[3] The Blooming Rose post office closed in 1955.[4]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Blooming Rose, Missouri
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. "Phelps County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  4. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 5, 2016.

37°36′46″N 91°58′22″W / 37.61278°N 91.97278°W / 37.61278; -91.97278


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