Sweet Spring Creek
Sweet Spring Creek is a stream in Randolph County in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the East Fork .
The stream headwaters arise within the western part of Moberly at 39°25′22″N 92°27′08″W / 39.42278°N 92.45222°W[1] at an elevation of approximately 850 feet.[2] The stream meanders to the west for approximately 12 miles essentially parallel to and about three miles south of US Route 24. It reaches its confluence with the Little Chariton approximately 1.5 miles south-southeast of the community of Clifton Hill.[3] The confluence is at 39°24′50″N 92°39′23″W / 39.41389°N 92.65639°WCoordinates: 39°24′50″N 92°39′23″W / 39.41389°N 92.65639°W at an elevation of 653 feet.[1]
WikiMiniAtlasSweet Spring Creek was so named on account of its sweet-tasting, clean water.[4]
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- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sweet Spring Creek
- ^ Moberly, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1953 (1983 rev.)
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed. 1998, p. 30, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ^ "Randolph County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2016.
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