Spring Creek (Big Piney River Tributary)
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Spring Creek is a stream in
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and
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counties in the
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of southern
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. It is a tributary to the Big Piney River. The stream
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arise in northern Texas County at approximately one mile east of
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and just north of
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. The stream flows to the west through Licking passes under
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and turns to the northwest. The stream flows to the northwest passing east of the community of Kinderpost. It enters Phelps County and flows north passing to the west of Beulah and gains the tributary of
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. The stream flows past the community of
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to its confluence in western Phelps County at just east of the Phelps- Pulaski county line.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 54,


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