Spruce is an unincorporated community in northeast Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] The community is on Missouri Route H approximately ten miles east of Butler. The headwaters of South Deepwater Creek flow past the south side of the community.[2]
Spruce was laid out in 1881, and named after a nearby post office of the same name.[3] The Spruce post office closed in 1957.[4]