Aunts Creek

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Aunts Creek
Location
CountryUnited States
State Missouri
Physical characteristics
Source 
 ⁃ coordinates 36°42′53″N93°22′29″W / 36.71472°N 93.37472°W / 36.71472; -93.37472
Mouth  
 ⁃ location
 Table Rock Lake
 ⁃ coordinates
 36°41′52″N93°26′33″W / 36.69778°N 93.44250°W / 36.69778; -93.44250
 ⁃ elevation
935 ft (285 m)

Aunts Creek is a stream in Stone County in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. Alternate names include Ance Creek and Ants Creek. [1]

Stream A body of surface water flowing down a channel

A stream is a body of water with surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel. The stream encompasses surface and groundwater fluxes that respond to geological, geomorphological, hydrological and biotic controls.

Stone County, Missouri U.S. county in Missouri

Stone County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 32,202. Its county seat is Galena.

Ozarks Highland region in central-southern United States

The Ozarks, also called the Ozark Mountains or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and extreme southeastern Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant portion of northern Arkansas and most of the southern half of Missouri, extending from Interstate 40 in Arkansas to Interstate 70 in central Missouri.

The source area for the stream lies just west of Missouri Route 76 north of Lakeview. The stream flows west-southwest and then southwest to enter the Aunts Creek arm of Table Rock Lake at Aunts Creek Park on Missouri Route DD northwest of Kimberling City. The headwaters of Wilson Run lie just north of Route 76 and Aunts Creek. [2]

Route 76 is a highway in the west half of southern Missouri running between U.S. Route 60 and U.S. Route 63 at Willow Springs and the Oklahoma state line near Tiff City where it continues as a county road. It is the most famous road in Branson where it is known as "76 Country Boulevard" and features many of the entertainment theaters for which Branson is famous. The road runs for its entirety through the Missouri Ozarks, and is at times very hilly and curvy.

Lakeview is an unincorporated community in Ray County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

Table Rock Lake reservoir on Missouri-Arkansas border

Table Rock Lake is an artificial lake or reservoir in the Ozarks of southwestern Missouri and northwestern Arkansas. The lake is impounded by Table Rock Dam constructed from 1954 to 1958 on the White River by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Aunts Creek has the name of "Aunt" China Bowman, a pioneer citizen. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Aunts Creek
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 2007, Third edition, p. 62, ISBN   0-89933-353-2
  3. ↑ "Stone County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.


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