Bucyrus is an unincorporated community in central Texas County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located on Route 17, approximately three miles northwest of Houston.[2] The ZIP Code for Bucyrus is 65444.[3]

An early variant name was "Odd".[4] A post office called Bucyrus has been in operation since 1898.[5] The present name is after the city of Bucyrus, Ohio, the native home of a first settler.[4][6]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bucyrus, Missouri
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ "Bucyrus ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 18, 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Texas County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 28, 2016.
  6. ↑ Eaton, David Wolfe (1918). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 367.

37°20′39″N 92°01′01″W / 37.34417°N 92.01694°W / 37.34417; -92.01694


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