Beaverdam Creek is a

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 ...

Butler A butler is a person who works in a house serving and is a domestic worker in a large household. In great houses, the household is sometimes divided into departments with the butler in charge of the dining room, wine cellar, and pantry. Some a ...

and Ripley counties in the

Ozarks The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant port ...

of southern

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. It is a tributary of the Little Black River. The stream

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arise in northeastern Ripley County at the confluence of North Prong and West Prong creeks at and an elevation of about 435 feet.''Hogan Hollow, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980 (1986 rev.) The stream flows to the south and east entering Butler County about one mile southeast of the headwaters and about two miles southwest of the community of Milltown. The stream meanders to the southeast for about five miles to its confluence with the Little Black River at and an elevation of 315 feet.''Fairdealing, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979 (1986 rev) The confluence is about two miles north of the US Route 160 crossing of the Little Black and about three miles northeast of the community of Fairdealing.

Poplar Bluff Poplar Bluff is a medium city in Butler County in Southeast Missouri, United States. It is the county seat of Butler County and is known as "The Gateway to the Ozarks" among other names. The population was 16,225 at the 2020 census. The Poplar B ...

lies about nine miles east-northeast of the confluence. Beaverdam Creek was so named on account of

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s on its course.

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