Hurricane Creek (Missouri River tributary) explained

Hurricane Creek is a stream in northern Howard County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Missouri River which it enters just south of Glasgow.[1]

The stream headwaters arise approximately one mile west of Missouri Route 5 five miles northwest of Fayette at 39.2092°N -92.7436°W at an altitude of 850 feet.[2] The stream flows due west six miles passing under Missouri Route 87 about one mile south of Glasgow[1] to its confluence with the Missouri at 39.2072°N -92.8539°W at an elevation of 614 feet.

Hurricane Creek was named for an incident when a tornado flattened trees in the area.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, 1998, Delorme p.30
  2. Fayette, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1953 (1979 rev.)
  3. Web site: Howard County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) . The State Historical Society of Missouri . 8 October 2016 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070841/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_howard.html . 24 June 2016 .