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Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.

Spruce is an unincorporated community in northeast Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route H approximately ten miles east of Butler. The headwaters of South Deepwater Creek flow past the south side of the community. Spruce was laid out in 1881, and named after a nearby post office of the same name. The Spruce post office closed in 1957.

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