Hinkson 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 Boone County in the

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. Its middle section runs through the city of

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It was named after Robert Hinkson, a pioneer citizen who lived along its banks. Several trails, conservation areas, and parks are along its path. it eventually empties into

Perche Creek Perche Creek, or Roche Perche Creek is a stream in Boone County, Missouri, Boone and Randolph County, Missouri, Randolph counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. Besides the Missouri River it is the largest stream in Boone County, Missouri and forms ...

southwest of Columbia. The

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follows the creek in Boone County. The stream headwaters arise at approximately two miles northeast of Hallsville at an approximate elevation of 880 feet.''Centralia, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1969 (1979 rev) The stream flows south-southwest past Hallsville and through the east side of Columbia where it passes under

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and

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. South of Columbia the stream turns to the west-southwest and reaches its confluence with Perche Creek at at an elevation of 558 feet. The Hinkson Woods Conservation Area is located within meanders of the creek. On June 25, 2021 the Hinkson flooded, reaching a record 23.04 feet in Columbia.

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File:Hinkson Creek on a Winter Day (16606575305).jpg, Hinkson Creek in February 2015 after snow File:Hinkson Creek Geese and Bridge.jpg, Canada geese near Stadium Blvd in 2019 File:Hinkson Creek Bluff in March 2019.jpg, A bluff near Old Highway 63 in 2019

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{{authority control Geography of Columbia, Missouri Rivers of Boone County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri

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