Hilda is an unincorporated community within the Mark Twain National Forest District in Taney County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is located on U.S. Route 160 three miles east of the Kissee Mills recreation area on the Beaver Creek arm of Bull Shoals Lake and approximately twenty miles east of Branson.
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The federally-designated, 13,000 acre Hercules Glades Wilderness Area lies one mile east of Hilda. The site of the former Hilda Lookout Tower is approximately one mile south on Lime Kiln Mountain.[2] Hilda is part of the Branson Micropolitan Statistical Area.
A post office called Hilda was established in 1896, and remained in operation until 1975.[3] An early postmaster gave the community the first name of his wife, Hilda Mosely.
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References
edit- ^ "Hilda". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Hilda, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967 (1979 rev.)
- ^ "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
- ^ "Taney County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.
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