Parks Creek is a
stream
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in
Wright
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and
Laclede counties in the
Ozarks of southern
Missouri
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.
It is a
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drainage ...
of the
Osage Fork Gasconade River.
Parks Creek begins at the confluence of two valleys south of
Grovespring and just west of
Missouri Route 5. The stream flows essentially due north parallel to Route 5 and joins the Osage Fork in southern Laclede County just northeast of
Pease and the
Missouri Route J bridge. In northernmost Wright County the stream flows through the Dr John Alva Fuson Conservation Area. Parks Creek Road follows the stream from Grovespring north to Route J.
Parks Creek has the name of the local Parks family.
See also
*
List of rivers of Missouri
References
External links
John Alva Fuson, MD Conservation Area
Rivers of Laclede County, Missouri
Rivers of Wright County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
Tributaries of the Gasconade River
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