The Osage Fork Gasconade River is a stream in

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and Laclede counties in the

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of southern

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. It is a tributary of the

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. The stream headwaters arise in Webster County near the intersection of Missouri routes C and P about seven miles north of Seymour.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 53, ''High Prairie, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982 The stream flows north past

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where it turns to the northwest. It flows under

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about five miles east of Marshfield and turns to the northeast as it passes under

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. It passes about 3.5 miles east of Niangua and continues to the northeast passing under

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just west of Rader to enter Laclede County. It meanders to the southeast and crosses into the northwest corner of Wright County before returning to a northeast direction back into Laclede County adjacent to the community of Pease. It meanders on northeast passing under

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and then

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south of Drynob. It meanders north and enters the Gasconade about one mile south of

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and 1.5 miles west of the Laclede- Pulaski county line.

References

Rivers of Laclede County, Missouri Rivers of Webster County, Missouri Rivers of Wright County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri Tributaries of the Gasconade River {{Missouri-river-stub