Clear Creek (Fishing River)
Clear Creek is a stream in Clay County, Missouri, Clay and Clinton County, Missouri, Clinton counties of northwest Missouri. It is a tributary of the Fishing River. The headwaters of the stream are in Clinton County southwest of Lathrop, Missouri, Lathrop and it flows south-southwest into Clay County turning to the southeast to the east of Arley, Missouri, Arley. It then passes under U.S. Route 35 and Missouri Route 92 east of Kearney, Missouri, Kearney and on to its confluence with Fishing River just north of U.S. Route 69 to the northwest of Mosby, Missouri, Mosby. The source area is at and the confluence is at . Clear Creek was so named on account of its clear water. See also *List of rivers of Missouri References

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Stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to by a variety of local or regional names. Long large streams are usually called rivers, while smaller, less voluminous and more intermittent river, intermittent streams are known as streamlets, brooks or creeks. The flow of a stream is controlled by three inputs – surface runoff (from precipitation or meltwater), daylighting (streams), daylighted subterranean river, subterranean water, and surfaced groundwater (Spring (hydrology), spring water). The surface and subterranean water are highly variable between periods of rainfall. Groundwater, on the other hand, has a relatively constant input and is controlled more by long-term patterns of precipitation. The stream encompasses surface, subsurface and groundwater fluxes th ...
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