Bois Brule Creek is a tributary of
Cinque Hommes Creek
Cinque Hommes Creek is a tributary of the Mississippi River flowing through Perry County, Missouri.
Name
The early Colonial French name for the creek was "à la viande" or "with meat". Cinque Hommes Creek was named after Cape Cinque Hommes on ...
in
Perry County, Missouri.
Name
The name Bois Brule (French: Bois Brûlé) means “Burnt Wood” was given to both the creek and the flood plain by early French settlers. The name was applied by the French to describe a burnt tract of forest found in the area.
Physical geography
Bois Brule Creek is a tributary of
Cinque Hommes Creek
Cinque Hommes Creek is a tributary of the Mississippi River flowing through Perry County, Missouri.
Name
The early Colonial French name for the creek was "à la viande" or "with meat". Cinque Hommes Creek was named after Cape Cinque Hommes on ...
and flows into Cinque Hommes Creek in
Bois Brule Bottoms north of
Menfro, Missouri
Menfro is an unincorporated community in northeastern Perry County, Missouri, United States. It is located northeast of Perryville.
Name
The town is said to have been named by St. Louis-San Francisco Railroad officials in 1904 "for the three m ...
at 354 feet (108 meters). The stream’s feature ID is 741394. A number of drainage ditches empty into Bois Brule Creek, draining excess water out of Bois Brule Bottoms.
Tributaries
*Blue Spring Branch
*McClanahan Creek
Cultural geography
Bridges that traverse Bois Brule Creek are the Bois Brule Creek CR 212 Bridge, the Bois Brule Creek CR 216 Bridge, the Route E Mystery Bridge, and the Route 51 Bois Brule Bridge at McBride, Missouri.
History
The first European settlers in the vicinity of Bois Brule Creek were French colonial settlers. However, in 1798, a number of Irish Catholics were given permission to settle in the Bois Brule area. The
Bois Brule Township
Bois Brûlé is one of the eight townships located in Perry County, Missouri, in the United States of America.
Etymology
Bois Brûlé comes from the French word Bois-Brûlés (Burnt Woods) which was named for the Mississippi River bottom land ...
was organized in 1821 and named after the creek and bottoms, and was one of Perry County’s original three townships.
Communities
*
McBride
See also
*
List of rivers of Missouri
References
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Rivers of Missouri
Rivers of Perry County, Missouri