Osage Creek is a
stream
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in
Benton and
Washington
Washington commonly refers to:
* Washington (state), United States
* Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States
** A metonym for the federal government of the United States
** Washington metropolitan area, the metropolitan area centered on ...
counties in northwest
Arkansas
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.
It is a tributary of the
Illinois River
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.
The stream
headwaters
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Definition
The ...
arise just southeast of
Rogers Rogers may refer to:
Places
Canada
*Rogers Pass (British Columbia)
*Rogers Island (Nunavut)
United States
* Rogers, Arkansas, a city
* Rogers, alternate name of Muroc, California, a former settlement
* Rogers, Indiana, an unincorporated community
...
(at ) and it flows generally west past the south side of Rogers. It receives the waters of
Osage Spring on the southwest side of Rogers. It then flows southwest past the community of
Cave Springs. The stream flows through the northwest corner of Washington County and re-enters Benton County. The stream flows west to southwest and enters the Illinois River just north of the community of
Pedro
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The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning ...
(at ).
[''Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2nd Edition, 2004, p. 22 ]
References
Rivers of Benton County, Arkansas
Rivers of Washington County, Arkansas
Rivers of Arkansas
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