Hog Branch Explained

Hog Branch is a stream in Bates County, Missouri and Linn County, Kansas. It is a tributary of Mulberry Creek.

The stream headwaters are in eastern Linn County, Kansas, just west of the Missouri-Kansas border at 38.3014°N -94.6136°W and it flows southeast into Bates County, Missouri. The stream flows southeast to its confluence with Mulberry Creek about northeast of Amoret at 38.2689°N -94.5644°W.^[1]

Hog Branch was named for the hogs along its course.^[2]

See also

• List of rivers of Missouri

Notes and References

1. Amoret, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1961 (1976 rev.)
2. Web site: Bates County Place Names, 1928-1945 (archived) . The State Historical Society of Missouri . 1 September 2016 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071125/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_bates.html . 24 June 2016 .