Barton is an

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, United States, on

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near the

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. Barton was named after Barton, Wisconsin, by settler E. H. Burghardt. Burghardt started a flour mill and store near the mouth of Deep Creek, and later was postmaster of the Barton post office, which ran from 1896 to 1935.

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