Crane Pond Creek

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Crane Pond Creek is a stream in Iron and Wayne counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1]

The stream headwaters are in Iron County approximately 2.5 miles east of Glover at 37°28′46″N90°38′18″W / 37.47944°N 90.63833°W / 37.47944; -90.63833 and it flows to the southeast passing the community of Minimum to enter the northwest corner of Wayne County adjacent to the southwest corner of Madison County. The confluence with Big Creek is in Wayne County within the Sam A. Baker State Park at 37°17′11″N90°31′53″W / 37.28639°N 90.53139°W / 37.28639; -90.53139 . [1] [2] [3]

Crane Pond Creek was so named on account of cranes which frequented a pond near its course. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Crane Pond Creek
  2. Brunot, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968
  3. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, First edition, 1998, pp. 56-7 ISBN   0899332242
  4. "Wayne County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 1, 2017.