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Volger Branch

stream in the U.S. state of Missouri

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ26721039 ↗
Source-derived summary

Volger Branch is a stream in Atchison County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Rock Creek.

The stream headwaters arise in eastern Clay Township at an elevation of approximately 1080 feet just southwest of the junction of U.S. Route 136 and Missouri Route J. The stream flows to the southwest to its confluence with Rock Creek approximately one mile south of the city of Rock Port at an elevation of 912 feet.

Volger apparently is a corruption of Vogler, the surname of a pioneer settler.

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“Volger Branch” enters the record as stream in the U.S. state of Missouri. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Volger, Branch and stream can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1080—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Volger, Branch and stream.
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“Volger Branch” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Volger, Branch and stream provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26721039. Authority coordinates are 40.396, -95.510. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1080.

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This entry incorporates text from “Volger Branch” 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.