White Breast Creek is an important tributary of the
Des Moines River
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in
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. It flows
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accessed May 26, 2011 from southwest to northeast, rising in Ward Township in
Union County, near
Osceola
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, and flowing in an easterly then a northeasterly direction, to its mouth with the Des Moines River at
Lake Red Rock.
Tributaries
Its first main tributary is South White Breast Creek, on its
left bank
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; this creek has intermittent tributaries named Hoosier Creek and Little Hoosier Creek in Green Bay Township in
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.
Brush Creek enters as a
right bank
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tributary south of
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, in the Lucas Unit of the Stephens State Forest Wildlife Management Area, in Jackson Township of
Lucas County.
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joins in Liberty Township, also on the left bank.
Little White Breast Creek enters from the right bank, also in Liberty Township in Lucas County. This creek rises north and east of
Chariton
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from Lake Morris and Lake Ellis, two small reservoirs.
The next three left bank tributaries are
Barker Creek, a short stream confined to Liberty Township in Lucas County;
Stoney Creek then
Cotton Creek join White Breast Creek near
Lacona.
Wolf Creek and its tributary,
Flank Creek enter on the left bank in Dallas Township, a few miles west of
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. A few miles north of Dallas, the creek has a significant floodplain, regularly subject to inundation.
Hawk Run is the last significant tributary, entering near Lake Red Rock on the left bank.
See also
*
List of rivers of Iowa
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*those that form part of the boundaries of the U.S. state of Iowa;
*ordered by drainage basin, with tributaries indented under each larger rive ...
References
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Rivers of Iowa
Tributaries of the Des Moines River
Bodies of water of Marion County, Iowa
Bodies of water of Clarke County, Iowa
Bodies of water of Lucas County, Iowa
Bodies of water of Warren County, Iowa