Editing Des Arc, Missouri (section)

==History==
Des Arc was laid out in 1871.<ref name="Historical socitey">{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_iron.html |title=Iron County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=11 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071635/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_iron.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}</ref> According to folk etymology, Des Arc, meaning "the bend", was so named from a big bend in the railroad at the town site.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ | title=How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | author=Eaton, David Wolfe | year=1916 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n73 176]}}</ref> However, the State Historical Society of Missouri believes the name may be a corruption of ''aux arcs'', the origin of the name [[Ozarks]].<ref name="Historical socitey" /> A post office called Des Arc has been in operation since 1871.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Iron |title=Post Offices |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=11 October 2016 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012075240/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=MO&county=Iron |archivedate=12 October 2016 }}</ref>