Clear 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
Shelby County in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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.
It is a tributary of the
North River.
[''Burkesville, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1964]
The stream headwaters arise at
[ at an elevation of approximately 750 feet][ and 1000 feet west of ]Missouri Route T
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 ...
. The Stream flows to the north-northwest passing under Missouri Route 164 about one mile from its source and 3.5 miles west of the community of Emden
Emden () is an independent city and seaport in Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany, on the river Ems. It is the main city of the region of East Frisia and, in 2011, had a total population of 51,528.
History
The exact founding date of E ...
. The stream continues on course for another two miles to its confluence with the North River at at an elevation of 650 feet.[
Clear Creek was so named due to the clearness of its cold spring-sourced water.]
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 (AR ...
References
Rivers of Shelby County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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