The Little Sac River is a stream in
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,
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and
Dade counties the
Ozarks
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of southwest
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, U.S.A.
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The Little Sac headwaters start with an intermittent stream just north of Strafford in eastern Greene County. The stream passes under Missouri Route 125 just downstream from its source. The stream flows westward and just after passing under U. S. Route 65 the stream enters Fellows Lake. After leaving Fellows the stream enters McDaniel Lake. Springfield lies two to three miles to the south of the lakes. After leaving McDaniel the stream passes under Missouri Route 13
Route 13 is a highway in Missouri which runs almost the entire north–south length of the state. Its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 69/ 136 in Bethany. Its southern terminus is at the Arkansas state line in downtown Blue Eye, Misso ...
. The stream then turns to the northwest and enters Polk County. South of Morrisville the North Dry Sac River North Dry Sac River is a stream in northern Greene and southern Polk counties in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri.
The stream headwaters arise in northern Greene County southwest of Fair Grove and north of Hickory Barren at and the stream flows ...
enters the stream and the stream turns to the northwest passing under Missouri Route 215 and enters the east arm of Stockton Lake just southeast of Aldrich and passes under Missouri Route 123. The former confluence with the Sac River
The Sac River (pronounced, sock) is a river in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri. It is long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed May 31, 2011 with headwaters in western Green ...
(coordinates above) in Dade County lies under Stockton Lake about 12 miles to the northwest. At Aldrich, the river has an average annual discharge of 332 cubic feet per second.
References
Rivers of Missouri
Bodies of water of the Ozarks
Rivers of Dade County, Missouri
Rivers of Greene County, Missouri
Rivers of Polk County, Missouri
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