Coon 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 ...

Jasper Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or cryptocrystalline chalcedony and other mineral phases,Kostov, R. I. 2010. Review on the mineralogical systematics of jasper and related rocks. – Archaeometry Workshop, 7, 3, 209-213PDF/ref> ...

and Barton counties of southwest

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. It is a tributary of the

North Fork Spring River The North Fork Spring River is a stream in Lawrence, Dade, Barton and Jasper counties of southwest Missouri. It is a tributary to the Spring River. The headwaters are located in northwest Lawrence County at and the confluence with the Spring R ...

. The stream headwaters are in northeast Jasper County at and the

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with the North Fork Spring River is at . The stream source is located southwest of Dudenville and it flows to the northwest and then west crossing the Jasper–Barton county line several times before flowing into the North Fork Spring River in southern Barton County after passing under

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about one mile north of

. Coon Creek was named after the raccoon native to the area.

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Rivers of Barton County, Missouri Rivers of Jasper County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{Missouri-river-stub

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