Callahan Creek Explained

Callahan Creek is a stream in Boone County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Perche Creek.[1]

The stream headwaters arise in northwest Boone County just southeast of Harrisburg adjacent to Missouri Route 124 (at 39.1386°N -92.4578°W) and it flows south to southeast to its confluence with Perche Creek (at 38.9808°N -92.4103°W) about one half mile north of I-70 at the northwest corner of Columbia.[2]

A variant name was Callaham's Creek. The creek's name is a corruption of the last name of William Callaham, a pioneer settler.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Huntsdale, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1967 (1985 rev.)
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 30 and 37,
  3. Web site: Boone County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) . The State Historical Society of Missouri . 4 September 2016 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071013/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_boone.html . 24 June 2016 .