Fox Creek (Bryant Creek tributary)

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Fox Creek
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Fox Creek looking south from county road bridge at Champion, Missouri
Location
Country United States
State Missouri
Region Douglas County and Wright County
Physical characteristics
Source 
  coordinates 37°05′24″N92°23′58″W / 37.09000°N 92.39944°W / 37.09000; -92.39944 [1]
  elevation1,400 [2]  ft (430 m)
Mouth  
  coordinates
36°49′34″N92°23′13″W / 36.82611°N 92.38694°W / 36.82611; -92.38694 Coordinates: 36°49′34″N92°23′13″W / 36.82611°N 92.38694°W / 36.82611; -92.38694
  elevation
722 ft (220 m)
[1]

Fox Creek is a south flowing stream in Douglas and Wright counties of the southern Missouri Ozarks. It is a tributary to Bryant Creek. The stream source is about three quarters of a mile east of Missouri Route C just southeast of the town of Norwood in southern Wright County. The stream flows in a meandering southerly direction past Denlow on Missouri Route 76; east of Champion; just west of Gentryville on Missouri Route 14; and Bertha to its confluence with Bryant Creek just south of Bertha. [3] The elevation of the confluence is 722 ft (220 m). [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fox Creek (Bryant Creek tributary)
  2. Norwood, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 (revised 1985)
  3. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 63, ISBN   0-89933-224-2