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Drake, Missouri

unincorporated community in Missouri

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ27985148 ↗
Source-derived summary

Drake is an unincorporated community in Gasconade County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

History

A post office called Drake was established in 1868, and remained in operation until 1936. The community has the name of Charles D. Drake (1811–1892), United States Senator.

The Ruskaup House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Editorial summary

“Drake, Missouri” enters the record as unincorporated community in Missouri. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Drake, Missouri and unincorporated can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1868, 1936, 1811, 1892—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Drake, Missouri and unincorporated.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Drake, Missouri” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Drake, Missouri and unincorporated provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27985148. Authority coordinates are 38.468, -91.465. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1868, 1936, 1811 and 1892.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Drake, Missouri”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Drake, Missouri primary sources, Drake, Missouri archive and Drake research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Drake, Missouri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.