Protem ( ) is an unincorporated community in southeastern Taney County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Route 125, and is approximately north of the Missouri-Arkansas state line.Protem. Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968 Protem is part of the Branson, Missouri Micropolitan Statistical Area.
A post office called Protem has been in operation since 1875. The name comes from pro tem, a common abbreviation of the Latin term pro tempore ("for the time being"), because the community's first settlers could not decide on a name and a temporary one (which became permanent) was needed.
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