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Twelvemile Creek is a stream in Madison County in the
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of
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. It is a tributary of St. Francis River. The stream
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arise on the east flank of Matthews Mountain at and it flows southeast and then south to parallel
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past the communities of
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and Twelvemile. Just south of that community the stream turns to the west and flows past the community of Saco to its confluence with the St. Francis at .''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 57, Part of the course of Twelvemile Creek adjacent to the community of Twelvemile lies south of Fredericktown, hence the name.


See also

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Rivers of Madison County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{MadisonCountyMO-geo-stub