Brush Creek is a

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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

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. It is a

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to the

Bourbeuse River The Bourbeuse River (French for 'muddy') is a river located in east-central Missouri, in the Ozarks region, and is one of two major tributaries of the Meramec River, the other being the Big River. The Bourbeuse flows to the northeast from its sou ...

. The stream

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arise in western Crawford County at just south of

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west of Fanning and east of Rosati in adjacent Phelps County. The stream flows northeast under I-44 and turns north adjacent to the

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airport. The stream is impounded in the small Indian Lake. Below the Indian Lake dam the stream meanders parallel to and then passes under

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past Oak Hill and enters southeastern Gasconade County. The stream

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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.

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Rivers of Crawford County, Missouri Rivers of Gasconade County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{Missouri-river-stub

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