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Jake Prairie, Missouri

unincorporated community in Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ27984724 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jake Prairie is an unincorporated community in northwest Crawford County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is located on Missouri Route F approximately eight miles northwest of Cuba.

History

A post office called Jakes Prairie was established in 1875, and remained in operation until 1933. Tradition states the community was named after an Indian who lived near the site.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jake Prairie, Missouri” as unincorporated community in Missouri. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jake, Prairie and Missouri.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1875, 1933—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jake, Prairie and Missouri providing the first useful test.
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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 Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27984724. Authority coordinates are 38.163, -91.511. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1875 and 1933.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jake Prairie, 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.