Beaverdam Creek (Little Black River tributary)
Beaverdam Creek is a stream in Butler and Ripley counties in the Ozarks of southern Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the Little Black River.
The stream headwaters arise in northeastern Ripley County at the confluence of North Prong and West Prong creeks at 36°45′55″N 90°39′05″W / 36.76528°N 90.65139°W and an elevation of about 435 feet.[1][2] The stream flows to the south and east entering Butler County about one mile southeast of the headwaters and about two miles southwest of the community of Milltown.[2][3] The stream meanders to the southeast for about five miles to its confluence with the Little Black River at 36°41′32″N 90°34′14″W / 36.69222°N 90.57056°W and an elevation of 315 feet.[1][4] The confluence is about two miles north of the US Route 160 crossing of the Little Black and about three miles northeast of the community of Fairdealing.[4] Poplar Bluff lies about nine miles east-northeast of the confluence.[5]
Beaverdam Creek was so named on account of beaver dams on its course.[6]
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References edit
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Beaverdam Creek (Little Black River tributary)
- ^ a b Hogan Hollow, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980 (1986 rev.)
- ^ Stringtown, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1980
- ^ a b Fairdealing, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1979 (1986 rev)
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 66-67, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ^ "Ripley County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
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