Dove Creek (Missouri)

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Dove Creek
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CountryUnited States
State Missouri
Region Wright County
Physical characteristics
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 ⁃ coordinates 37°12′25″N92°17′45″W / 37.20694°N 92.29583°W / 37.20694; -92.29583
Mouth  
 ⁃ coordinates
 37°18′13″N92°23′27″W / 37.30361°N 92.39083°W / 37.30361; -92.39083 Coordinates: 37°18′13″N92°23′27″W / 37.30361°N 92.39083°W / 37.30361; -92.39083
 ⁃ elevation
1,073 ft (327 m)
[1]

Dove Creek is a stream in the Wright County, Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of Whetstone Creek.

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.

Wright County, Missouri U.S. county in Missouri

Wright County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 18,815. Its county seat is Hartville. The county was officially organized on January 29, 1841, and is named after Silas Wright, a former Congressman, U.S. Senator and Governor of New York.

Missouri U.S. state in the United States

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. Missouri is bordered by eight states : Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. 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 headwaters arise about five miles north of Mountain Grove just west of Missouri Route 95. The stream flows NNW roughly parallel to Route 95 past Dawson and turns west just east of Rayborn then flows under Missouri Route 38 just west of Rayborn. It continues west parallel to Route 38 to its confluence with Whetstone Creek about one half mile south of the confluence of Whetstone Creek with the Gasconade River. [2]

Mountain Grove, Missouri City in Missouri, United States

Mountain Grove is a city in southwestern Texas and southeastern Wright counties in the U.S. state of Missouri, located in the south central section of the state. The population was 4,789 at the 2010 census.

Missouri Route 95 highway in Missouri

Route 95 is a highway in southern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 32 at Lynchburg in Laclede County. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 160 at Lutie about 2.5 miles west of the Theodosia arm of Bull Shoals Lake in Ozark County.

Dawson is an unincorporated community in eastern Wright County, Missouri, United States. Dawson is located on Missouri Route 95, approximately nine miles north of Mountain Grove and three miles south of the Route 95 - Missouri Route 38 junction.

Dove Creek was so named due to the presence of doves near its course. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dove Creek (Missouri)
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 53, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ "Wright County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
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