Long 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
Taney County
Taney County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 56,066. Its county seat is Forsyth. It is included in the Branson, Missouri, Micropolitan Statistical Area.
...
in the
Ozarks of southwest
Missouri.
It is a
tributary of
Beaver Creek.
The stream
headwaters are at and the
confluence
In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...
with Beaver Creek is at .
[
The source area for Long Creek lies adjacent to ]Missouri Route 125
Route 125 runs between U.S. Route 65 at Fair Grove and the Arkansas state line, where it continues as Highway 125. After the road crosses into Marion County, Arkansas, the highway crosses Bull Shoals Lake via a free ferry. It is a two-lane ro ...
south of the Hercules community and the Hercules Fire Tower. The stream flows west entering the Hercules Glades Wilderness. The stream exits the wilderness just prior to entering Beaver Creek at the north edge of Bull Shoals Lake.[Hilda, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967]
References
Rivers of Taney County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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