Piney 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 Madison County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the

St. Francis River The St. Francis River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, about long, in southeastern Missouri and northeastern Arkansas in the United States. The river drains a mostly rural area and forms part of the Missouri-Arkansas state line along the ...

.''Rhodes Mountain, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980 The stream headwaters arise on the south flank of Holladay Mountain at at an elevation of approximately 800 feet. The stream flows to the south-southwest passing under

Missouri Route 72 Route 72 is a highway in southern Missouri. Its eastern terminus is at Route 34 west of Jackson; its western terminus is at I-44 in Rolla. Route 72 is one of the original 1922 state highways. Its eastern terminus was at Centerville, and its w ...

to the west of the Oak Grove community. The stream continues to the southwest passing under Missouri Route D to its

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 the St. Francis west of Rhodes Mountain and south of the Silver Mine Recreation Area. The confluence is at and an elevation of 568 feet. Piney Creek was so named on account of

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near its course.

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Rivers of Madison County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{MadisonCountyMO-geo-stub

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