Horse 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
Barton,
Cedar,
Dade and
Vernon counties in southwest
Missouri.
It is a tributary of
Cedar Creek.
The stream
headwaters arise in southern Dade County at .
[ The stream source is just east of ]Missouri Route 97
Route 97 is a highway in southwest Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 32 eight miles (13 km) south of El Dorado Springs; its southern terminus is at Route 86, four miles north of Wheaton.
Route description
Route 97 starts at a ...
south of Lockwood Lockwood may refer to:
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. The stream flows northwest under Route 97 and north passing under U.S. Route 160 just west of Lockwood. It flows northwest into Barton County just east of Layneville. It continues past Newport
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and Milford Milford may refer to:
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. Past Milford the stream turns northeast and flows into the southeast corner of Vernon County and into Cedar County northwest of West Independence. It crosses under Route 97 again and under Missouri Route 32 southeast of Filley and on to its confluence
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with Cedar Creek in west-central Cedar County at .[
According to tradition, Horse Creek was named from an incident when frontiersmen encountered a horse carcass along the creek's course.]
See also
* List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Barton County, Missouri
Rivers of Cedar County, Missouri
Rivers of Dade County, Missouri
Rivers of Vernon County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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