Sugar Creek (South Grand River tributary) explained

Sugar Creek is a stream in Cass County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the South Grand River.

The stream headwaters arise at 38.6039°N -94.2528°W approximately six miles southeast of Harrisonville and 1.5 miles east of the community of Daugherty. The stream crosses under Missouri Route 7 two miles southeast of Daugherty and flows generally south for approximately ten miles to its confluence with the South Grand River at the southern border of Cass County.[1] The confluence is just west of the Settles Ford Conservation Area at 38.4536°N -94.21°W and an elevation of 761 feet.

Sugar Creek was named for the sugar maple trees lining its course.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Missouri Atlas & Gasetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed, 1998, p. 34
  2. Web site: Cass County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived). The State Historical Society of Missouri. 17 September 2016. bot: unknown. https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070927/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_cass.html. 24 June 2016.