Ozark Highlands

General. The Ozark Highlands viticultural area is located in south central Missouri. The area comprises portions of the following counties: Phelps, Maries, Osage, Gasconade, Franklin, Crawford, Texas, Shannon, Dent, Reynolds, and Pulaski. The beginning point of the following boundary description is the junction of Little Piney Creek and the Gasconade River, near Jerome, Missouri (in the northwest corner of the Rolla map). Boundary Description. (i) From the beginning point, the boundary goes northward along the Gasconade River to the latitude line 38°00 (the dividing line between the Rolla and St. Louis maps); (ii) Then eastward along that latitude line to U.S. Highway 63; (iii) Then northward along U.S. 63 to Spring Creek; (iv) Then north-northwestward along Spring Creek to the Gasconade River; (v) Then northward along the Gasconade River to a power transmission line (less than 1 mile north of Buck Elk Creek); (vi) Then eastward and east-northeastward along that power transmission line to Missouri Route 19; (vii) Then southward along Route 19 to the Bourbeuse River; (viii) Then east-northeastward along the Bourbeuse River to the range line dividing R. 2 W. and R. 1 W.; (ix) Then southward along that range line to the Meramec River; (x) Then southwestward along the Meramec River to Huzzah Creek; (xi) Then southward along Huzzah Creek to Dry Creek (on the Rolla map, where Miss…