Toms 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 Reynolds County in the

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. It is a tributary of the West Fork Black River.''Corridon, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967 (1985 rev.) The stream's headwaters arise just east of

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at and an elevation of approximately 1300 feet. It flows generally north for approximately two miles then turns to the east-northeast for about four miles to its

confluence In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river (main stem); o ...

with the West Fork just north of the community of West Fork at at an elevation of 912 feet. Toms Creek is named for Thomas Sutterfield, an early settler.

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Rivers of Reynolds County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{ReynoldsCountyMO-geo-stub

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