Rock Branch (also called Rock 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 the
U.S. states of
Missouri and
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...
.
It is a tributary of
Fivemile Creek.
The stream headwaters arise at approximately five miles southwest of
Joplin and one mile south of
I-44. The stream flows to the southwest roughly parallel to I-44. The stream confluence with Fivemile Creek is in Oklahoma at and just under one half mile west of the Missouri-Oklahoma border.
[
Rock Branch was so named on account of the rocky character of its creek bed.]
See also
* List of rivers of Missouri
* List of rivers of Oklahoma
References
Rivers of Newton County, Missouri
Rivers of Ottawa County, Oklahoma
Rivers of Missouri
Rivers of Oklahoma
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