Clear Creek (Crooked Creek tributary) explained

Clear Creek is a stream in Monroe and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Crooked Creek.

The stream headwaters are in southern Shelby County west of Shelbina at 39.7078°N -92.0903°W and the confluence with Crooked Creek is just upstream from the Mark Twain Lake in northern Monroe County at 39.5892°N -91.9564°W.[1]

Clear Creek was so named on account of the clarity of the water it contains.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 48
  2. Web site: Monroe County Place Names, 1928–1945 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070849/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_monroe.html . June 24, 2016 . live . The State Historical Society of Missouri. November 10, 2016.

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