White Rock, Missouri

Unincorporated community in the American state of Missouri

White Rock is an unincorporated community in southeast Carroll County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1]

The community is on Missouri Route O and is on a prominence above the Missouri River floodplain. Wakenda Creek flows past along the edge of the floodplain south of the community. De Witt is five miles to the northeast and Wakenda is five miles to the southwest. Miami is across the river to the southeast.[2] Miami Station on the Wabash Railroad is 1.5 miles to the northeast.[3]

The community was named for deposits of white rock quarried along the bluff face below the town site.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: White Rock, Missouri
2. ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 29 ISBN 0-89933-224-2
3. ^ Miami Station, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 (1978 rev.)
4. ^ "Carroll County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2016.

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Municipalities and communities of Carroll County, Missouri, United States

County seat: Carrollton

Cities|

* Bogard
* Bosworth
* Carrollton
* De Witt
* Hale
* Norborne

Map of Missouri highlighting Carroll County

Village|

* Tina

Townships|

* Carrollton
* Cherry Valley
* Combs
* De Witt
* Egypt
* Eugene
* Fairfield
* Hill
* Hurricane
* Leslie
* Moss Creek
* Prairie
* Ridge
* Rockford
* Stokes Mound
* Sugartree
* Trotter
* Van Horn
* Wakenda
* Washington

Unincorporated
communities|

* Bridge Creek
* Coloma
* Grace
* Little Compton
* Mandeville
* Miami Station
* Miles Point
* Plymouth
* Roads
* Standish
* Stet‡
* Sugartree
* Wakenda
* White Rock

Ghost towns|

* Asper
* Fisher
* Quote

Footnotes|

‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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