Shoal 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
Appanoose
Appanoose was a 19th-century Meskwaki chief who lived in Iowa; he was son of Taimah (Chief Tama) and probably a grandson of Quashquame. Prior to European-American settlement in the 19th century, the tribe occupied territory in what became Michiga ...
and
Wayne counties of
Iowa and
Putnam County,
Missouri, United States. It is a tributary of the
Chariton River.
Prior to channeling of the Chariton the confluence was approximately two miles south of the community of
Livonia and on the Putnam-
Schuyler county line. The channeling moved the Chariton approximately three-quarter mile to the east resulting in the current confluence being within western Schuyler County.
Shoal Creek was so named on account of its shallow depth.
See also
*
List of rivers of Iowa
*
List of rivers of Missouri
References
Rivers of Appanoose County, Iowa
Rivers of Putnam County, Missouri
Rivers of Wayne County, Iowa
Rivers of Iowa
Rivers of Missouri
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