Rock Branch (Fivemile Creek tributary) explained

Rock Branch (also called Rock Creek) is a stream in the U.S. states of Missouri and Oklahoma. It is a tributary of Fivemile Creek.

The stream headwaters arise at 37.0053°N -94.5564°W approximately five miles southwest of Joplin and one mile south of I-44. The stream flows to the southwest roughly parallel to I-44. The stream confluence with Fivemile Creek is in Oklahoma at 36.9808°N -94.6242°W and just under one half mile west of the Missouri-Oklahoma border.^[1]

Rock Branch was so named on account of the rocky character of its creek bed.^[2]

See also

• List of rivers of Missouri
• List of rivers of Oklahoma

Notes and References

1. Racine, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1950
2. Web site: Newton County Place Names, 1928–1945 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071754/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_newton.html . June 24, 2016 . live . The State Historical Society of Missouri. November 22, 2016.