Brush 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 ...
in
Crawford
Crawford may refer to:
Places Canada
* Crawford Bay Airport, British Columbia
* Crawford Lake Conservation Area, Ontario
United Kingdom
* Crawford, Lancashire, a small village near Rainford, Merseyside, England
* Crawford, South Lanarkshire, a ...
and
Gasconade counties in the
U.S. state of
Missouri.
It is a
tributary to the
Bourbeuse River.
The stream
headwaters arise in western Crawford County at just south of
Interstate 44 west of
Fanning and east of
Rosati in adjacent
Phelps County. The stream flows northeast under I-44 and turns north adjacent to the
Cuba airport. The stream is impounded in the small Indian Lake. Below the Indian Lake dam the stream meanders parallel to and then passes under
Missouri Route 19
Route 19 is a long state highway in Missouri. Its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 61 in New London and its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 63 on the north side of Thayer. Route 19 is one of Missouri's original 1922 highways, though it in ...
past
Oak Hill and enters southeastern Gasconade County. The stream
confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...
with the Bourbeuse is about one mile north of the Crawford-Gasconade county line at .
[
Brush Creek was named for the brush lining its course.]
See also
* List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Crawford County, Missouri
Rivers of Gasconade County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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