Bracken Creek is a small, mostly intermittent stream in Webster County, Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the Osage Fork Gasconade River.

The stream source is at: 37°19′43″N 92°45′33″W / 37.32861°N 92.75917°W / 37.32861; -92.75917 and the confluence is at 37°22′26″N 92°47′23″W / 37.37389°N 92.78972°W / 37.37389; -92.78972.[1] The stream headwaters are northeast of Bracken and it flows north then northwest roughly parallel to Missouri Route JJ to its confluence with Osage Fork south of Route M and east-southeast of Niangua.[2]

Bracken Creek has the name of the local Bracken family. The Brackens settled near the creek in about 1850.[3]

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  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bracken Creek
  2. ^ High Prairie Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982
  3. ^ "Webster County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.