Sni-A-Bar Creek () is a

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and

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counties in the

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. It is a tributary of the Missouri River. The stream

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arise in southwest Lafayette County at and the stream flows southwest into Jackson County. The stream turns north three miles north of Lone Jack. It continues to the north passing under

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just east of Grain Valley. It then turns to the northeast and passes back into Lafayette County. It crosses under

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, and

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south and east of

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. It enters the Missouri River about one mile northeast of Wellington at . Sni-A-Bar is possibly a corruption of ''chenail Hubert'' (), meaning "Hubert channel/slough" in French. Alternatively, the name may have come from a French frontiersman named Abar who was charting a course on the Missouri River in the early 1800s. Alternate names include Big Sni-A-Bar Creek, Sni-A-Bar River, and Sniabar Creek.

Alexander Majors Alexander Majors (October 4, 1814 – January 13, 1900) was an American businessman, who along with William Hepburn Russell and William B. Waddell founded the Pony Express, based in St. Joseph, Missouri. This was one of the westernmost points ...

, one of the founders of the

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, called the creek Big Snye Bear River in his book ''Seventy Years on the Frontier''.Majors, Alexander. ''Seventy years on the frontier: Alexander Major's memoirs of a lifetime on the border''. Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & Company. 1893, pp 28-29

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