Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Macks Creek, MO

Macks Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southwest Camden County, Missouri, in the Lake of the Ozarks region — it is no longer an incorporated city.

Macks Creek takes its name from the nearby creek of the same name, which most likely was named for the local Mack (or Hack) family, and a post office has been in operation there since 1872.

Macks Creek was incorporated in 1923, but voters approved dissolving the town in 2012 and it formally disincorporated on September 27, 2012.

For years Macks Creek ran one of the most infamous speed traps in the entire nation on U.S. Route 54, strictly enforcing a 45-mph speed limit where the highway ran 65 mph on either side of town.

With a population of roughly 270, Macks Creek wrote around 2,900 traffic tickets a year, and traffic fines supplied roughly three-quarters of the town's revenue.

After Macks Creek police ticketed Missouri state legislator Delbert Scott, the state enacted the 'Macks Creek Law' in 1995, capping the share of a municipality's revenue that can come from traffic fines — legislation still known by the town's name.

A 1997 state audit uncovered major financial woes in Macks Creek; town officials, including the mayor and the police department, resigned, and the city declared bankruptcy in 1998.

The 2010 census, the last taken while Macks Creek was still a city, counted 244 people in 102 households; counted as a census-designated place, Macks Creek recorded 365 residents in the 2020 census.

Macks Creek sits on U.S. Route 54 in Camden County's Russell Township, southwest of the Lake of the Ozarks.