McGirk is an unincorporated community in eastern Moniteau County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located approximately five miles east of California on old U.S. Route 50.
A post office called McGirk has been in operation since 1881.[2] The community has the name of the local McGirk family.[3][4]
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: McGirk, Missouri
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
- ^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1917). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 333.
- ^ "Moniteau County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016.