Indian 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 St. Francois County in the U.S. state of

Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...

. It is a tributary of the

St. Francis River The St. Francis River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about long, in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas in the United States. The river drains a mostly rural area and forms part of the Missouri-Arkansas state line along the ...

. The stream begins at the confluence of

Middlebrook Creek Middlebrook Creek is a stream in Iron and St. Francois counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. Middlebrook Creek merges with Mud Creek to form the headwaters of Indian Creek.''Iron Mountain Lake, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, ...

and Mud Creek at .''Iron Mountain Lake, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968 (1983 rev.) The stream flows north and is impounded as Iron Mountain Lake within the

Iron Mountain Lake Iron Mountain Lake is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. The population was 737 at the 2010 census. Geography Iron Mountain Lake is located (37.688752, -90.623180). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city h ...

community. The stream continues to the north-northeast passing under Missouri Route W on to its confluence with the St. Francis River about 3.5 miles southeast of Bismarck at . Indian Creek was so named on account of a nearby Indian village.

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Rivers of St. Francois County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{StFrancoisCountyMO-geo-stub

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