Buffalo 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 northern Pettis and southern Saline counties in the

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. It is a tributary of

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.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p.36 The stream

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arise in northern Pettis County southeast of Houstonia and it flows north past the east side of Houstonia to enter the Blackwater River just north of the Pettis-Saline county line. Buffalo Creek was so named due to reports of buffalo in the area.

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Rivers of Pettis County, Missouri Rivers of Saline County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{Missouri-river-stub

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