Redbird, Missouri

Redbird is an unincorporated community in southern Gasconade County, Missouri, in the United States.[1] The community lies on Price Creek, a small tributary of the Bourbeuse River and about one half mile southwest of the Bourbeuse.[2] Owensville lies about eleven miles to the north-northeast and St. James lies about twelve miles to the south-southwest.[3]

History

Redbird (or Red Bird) was so named by its first postmaster, because he thought it would be an easy name to spell and remember.[4]

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Redbird, Missouri
  2. Redbird, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1962 (1980 rev.)
  3. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 47, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  4. Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 169.

Coordinates: 38°10′54″N 91°34′14″W / 38.18167°N 91.57056°W / 38.18167; -91.57056


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