Keeney Creek or sometimes Keeney Branch is a stream in southwest Ray County of northwest

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. It is a tributary of the

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. The stream headwaters arise just east of

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approximately one half mile north of Elkhorn at . The stream flows south past Elkhorn and parallel to

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. Approximately six miles south of its origin the stream passes under

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and the communities of Albany and Orrick. The stream turns southwest passing under

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just north of Floyd and continues to the southwest to its confluence with the Fishing River at .''Buckner, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1990 The confluence is approximately one quarter mile north of the Fishing River confluence with the Missouri River and within the Missouri River floodplain. The stream was named for a family who lived adjacent to the stream in Orrick Township.

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