Cedar Creek is a
stream
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in
Dade and
Cedar counties of southwest
Missouri.
The source of the stream is in Dade County at and the
confluence
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with the
Sac River in Cedar County is at .
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 43 and 51, ]
Cedar Creek starts as a small intermittent stream in west central Dade County, northwest of Greenfield
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and southeast of the community of Sylvania. The stream flows north passing under Missouri Route 97
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just to the east of Cedarville and enters Cedar County. The stream meanders north northeast past Jerico Springs and under Missouri Route 32 to the west of Stockton Stockton may refer to:
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. It continues northeast passing under Missouri Route 39 south of Cedar Springs. It then turns east and enters the Sac River to the north of Caplinger Mills in northeast Cedar County.[
Cedar Creek was named for the cedar timber along its course.]
See also
* List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Cedar County, Missouri
Rivers of Dade County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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