Brushy 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 Morgan County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of

Gravois Creek Gravois Creek is a stream in south central Morgan County, Missouri. It is a tributary of the Osage River within the Lake of the Ozarks.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 45, The stream headwaters arise along the east ...

. The stream headwaters arise at adjacent to Missouri Route 135 and north of the Proctor Towersite State Wildlife Area at an elevation of . The stream flows northwest crossing under Missouri Route J to enter

at and an elevation of . The confluence is adjacent to Missouri Route 5 approximately 2.5 miles northwest of the community of Gravois Mills. Brushy Creek was so named due to the prevalence of

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along its

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Rivers of Morgan County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{MorganCountyMO-geo-stub

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