East Mill Creek

East Mill Creek
East Mill Creek on Iowa Highway J64 bridge south of College Springs, Iowa
Mill Creek Watershed map, East Mill Creek in top right
Location
Country	United States
State	Iowa and   Missouri
County	Page and Nodaway
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Amity Township
• coordinates	40°38′30″N95°04′31″W / 40.6416585°N 95.0752563°W / 40.6416585; -95.0752563 [1]
• elevation	1,155 ft (352 m)
Mouth	Mill Creek
• location	Lincoln Township
• coordinates	40°34′07″N95°08′35″W / 40.5686045°N 95.1430339°W / 40.5686045; -95.1430339 [1]
• elevation	971 ft (296 m) [1]
Length	8.4 mi (13.5 km) [2]
Basin features
Progression	East Mill Creek → Mill Creek → Nodaway River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Atlantic Ocean

East Mill Creek is a stream in Page County, Iowa and Nodaway County, Missouri in the United States. ^[1] It is an indirect tributary of the Nodaway River via Mill Creek and is 8.4 miles long. ^[3]

Etymology

East Mill Creek has also been denoted as Mill Creek. ^[4] Some maps denote the section of stream between the confluence of the East and Middle Mill Creeks as Middle Mill Creek ^{[5] [6]} though according to GNIS and the MDC that section is properly denoted as East Mill Creek. ^{[1] [2]}

Geography

The confluence of East Mill Creek and West Mill Creek form Mill Creek with East Mill Creek as a left tributary. The confluence is 12.3 miles before Mill Creek's mouth in the Nodaway River. ^[2]

Course

Beginning near the midpoint between College Springs and Shambaugh, East Mill Creek flows southerly and then southwesterly passed College Springs to the south. ^[7] It is joined by Middle Mill Creek one mile north of the Iowa-Missouri border and continues southwest where it meets West Mill Creek and forms Mill Creek three-fifths of a mile south of the aforementioned state border in northwestern Nodaway County, Missouri.

Tributaries

Middle Mill Creek is the only named tributary of East Mill Creek and its confluence is in southern Amity Township.

Crossings

East Mill Creek is crossed by two Secondary Highways, J52 and J64, northeast and southeast of College Springs, respectively.

See also

• Tributaries of the Nodaway River
• List of rivers of Iowa
• List of rivers of Missouri

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: East Mill Creek
2. "MO USGS HUC12 Watershed Boundaries". Missouri Spatial Data Information Service. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original on April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
3. Horton, Rick (2022). Nodaway River Watershed and Inventory Assessment (PDF). Missouri Department of Conservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 7, 2024. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
4. "Blanchard, IA - 1981". TopoView. USGS. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
5. https://iagenweb.org/page/maps/pageco/pageB.html
6. "Page County Map". IOWADOT. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
7. History of Page County, Iowa - Volume 1. Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1909. p. 456.