Caldwell 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
Wayne County in the
U.S. state of
Missouri.
It is a tributary of the
St. Francis River
The St. Francis River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about long, in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas in the United States. The river drains a mostly rural area and forms part of the Missouri-Arkansas state line along the ...
.
The stream
headwaters arise just south of
Missouri Route HH
A supplemental route is a state secondary road in the U.S. state of Missouri, designated with letters. Supplemental routes were various roads within the state which the Missouri Department of Transportation was given in 1952 to maintain in additi ...
and east of
US Route 67 at and it flows to the southeast. The
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 St. Francis is within the waters of
Lake Wappapello south of the Holiday Landing campground at . The confluence is about six miles south of
Greenville.
[
Caldwell Creek has the name of James Caldwell, a pioneer citizen.]
See also
* List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Wayne County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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