Fly 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
Cedar and
Vernon counties in southwest
Missouri.
It is a tributary of
Clear Creek.
The stream
headwaters arise in western Cedar County at . The stream flows west into Vernon County and turns north to northeast passing under
U.S. Route 54 west of
El Dorado Springs and on to its
confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...
with Clear Creek about one mile north of Route 54 at .
[
Fly Creek was so named on account of the many flies early settlers encountered near it.]
See also
* List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Cedar County, Missouri
Rivers of Vernon County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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