Greasy Creek (Niangua River Tributary)
Greasy Creek is a stream in Dallas and Webster counties the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. It is a tributary of the Niangua River. The stream headwaters are located at and the confluence with the Niangua River is at . The source waters of the stream arise in northwest Webster County west of Elkland. The stream flows north into Dallas County, turns northwest and crosses under Missouri Route 38 west of March and east of Redtop. The stream then flows north to northeast parallel to U.S. Route 65 to its west and crosses under Missouri Route 32 just east of Buffalo and enters the Niangua to the northeast of Buffalo. Greasy Creek was named due to the presence of oil or grease in the water. The oily nature reportedly was the result of an early spill of bacon or ham into the water. See also *List of rivers of Missouri List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. state). By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's na ...
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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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