Cedar 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
Osage County Osage County is the name of several counties in the United States:
* Osage County, Kansas
* Osage County, Missouri
* Osage County, Oklahoma
Osage County is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created in 1907 when Oklah ...
in the
U.S. state of
Missouri.
It is a tributary of
Loose Creek
Loose Creek is a stream in Osage County, Missouri in the United States.
The stream headwaters are at and the confluence with the Missouri River is at . The stream source area is along the northwest side of Pea Ridge southwest of Linn. The stre ...
.
The stream headwaters arise one mile southeast of
Linn along the south side of
US Route 50 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 then turns north and northwest passing under
Missouri Route 100 south of
Luystown. The stream meanders to the west passing south of
Frankenstein 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 timber near its course.]
See also
* List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Osage County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
{{OsageCountyMO-geo-stub