Cedar Creek is a
stream in
Osage County in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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.
It is a tributary of
Loose Creek.
The stream headwaters arise one mile southeast of
Linn Linn may refer to:
People
* Linn (surname)
* Linn (given name)
* Linn da Quebrada, stage name of Brazilian singer, actress, screenwriter and television personality Lina Pereira dos Santos (born 1990)
Places Germany
* Linn (Gangkofen), a part ...
along the south side of
US Route 50
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adjacent to the Thurman L. Willett fieldhouse.
[''Linn, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1981] The stream flows east passing under Route 50 west of
Potts
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* Doc Potts, animated television series
*Tom Potts, Child ballad 109
* The Potts, said to be the world's longest-running cartoon strip drawn by the same artist
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*Potts model, model of interac ...
then turns north and northwest passing under
Missouri Route 100
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south of
Luystown. The stream meanders to the west passing south of
Frankenstein
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to its confluence with Loose Creek.
The source area is at at an elevation of 940 feet
[ and the confluence is at at an elevation of 545 feet.][
Cedar Creek was so named on account of ]cedar
Cedar may refer to:
Trees and plants
*''Cedrus'', common English name cedar, an Old-World genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae
*Cedar (plant), a list of trees and plants known as cedar
Places United States
* Cedar, Arizona
* ...
timber near its course.
See also
*List of rivers of Missouri
List of rivers in Missouri ( U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Mississippi River
Arkansas River
*Mississippi River
**Arkansas River (A ...
References
Rivers of Osage County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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