Terre Bleue Creek
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Terre Bleue 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 St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties of eastern
Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
. It is a tributary of the Big River. Terre Bleue Creek was so named on account of the color of the dirt on its course, ''terre bleue'' being a name meaning "blue earth" in French.


Variant names

According to the
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, it has also been known historically as: *Terre Bleu Creek *Terre Blue Creek


See also

* List of rivers of Missouri


References

Rivers of St. Francois County, Missouri Rivers of Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{Missouri-river-stub