Sharp is an unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States. The village location is one-quarter mile south of US 160 between Caulfield and TecumsehBakersfield, Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968 (based on coordinates from GNIS)Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 64, at the head of Hickory Stump Hollow.Curreall, Missouri, 15 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, U.S. Geologic Survey, 1946 (based on coordinates from GNIS)
History A post office called Sharp was established in 1890, and remained in operation until 1915. According to tradition, the community was so named on account of a certain settler being considered "sharp".
References