Hams Prairie, Missouri

Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.

Hams Prairie (originally Ham's Prairie) is an unincorporated community in Callaway County, Missouri, United States.^[1] The town is located 5.5 miles south-southeast of Fulton on Missouri Route C. Mokane on the north edge of the Missouri River floodplain is six miles further south along Route C.^[2]

Hams Prairie is named for Rev. John Ham, a Methodist minister who arrived in Callaway County in 1815 and cut his name on a tree at the edge of the prairie one year later.^[3] A post office called Hams Prairie was established in 1865, and remained in operation until 1907.^[4]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hams Prairie, Missouri
^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.38 ISBN 0899332242
^ A Short History of Callaway County by Ovid Bell, p.3, and History of Callaway County, p.113 and p.481, as cited by Kingdom of Callaway Historical Society: Other Communities Archived October 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 14 January 2008.
^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016. Retrieved September 7, 2016.