Deepwater Creek is a stream in Henry County in west central Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the Truman Reservoir.
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.
Henry County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 22,272. Its county seat is Clinton. The county was organized December 13, 1834 as Rives County but was renamed in 1841 for Revolutionary War patriot Patrick Henry. The county originally had been named after William Cabell Rives, who was then serving as a U.S. Senator from Virginia. However, Rives lost popularity in Missouri after he joined the Whig Party.
Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States. With over six million residents, it is the 18th-most populous state of the Union. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City. The state is the 21st-most extensive in area. In the South are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center of the state into the Mississippi River, which makes up Missouri's eastern border.
The stream begins at the confluence of North Deepwater Creek and South Deepwater Creek in western Henry County (at 38°17′25″N94°02′43″W / 38.29028°N 94.04528°W [1] ) east-southeast of the community of Johnstown. The stream flows east-northeast passing under Missouri Route K north of Germantown. The stream is impounded as Montrose Lake within the Montrose Conservation Area. Below the Montrose Dam the stream flows generally east passing south of La Due. It continues to the east passing north of Deepwater to enter the Truman Reservoir west of the Missouri Route 13 bridge (at 38°15′52″N93°43′00″W / 38.26444°N 93.71667°W Coordinates: 38°15′52″N93°43′00″W / 38.26444°N 93.71667°W ) at an elevation of 705 ft (215 m). [1] [2]
In geography, a confluence occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join together to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river ; or where two streams meet to become the source of a river of a new name ; or where two separated channels of a river rejoin at the downstream end.
Johnstown is an unincorporated community in Bates County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Germantown is an unincorporated community in Henry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
The stream was known as a stream of deep water and the name Deepwater also served as a school, a village post office and township in the vicinity. [3]
Deepwater Township is a township in Henry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
