Horse Fork

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Horse Fork at old bridge in Grafton Memorial Park in Plattsburg, Missouri HorseFork.jpg
Horse Fork at old bridge in Grafton Memorial Park in Plattsburg, Missouri

Horse Fork is a stream in Clinton County in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the Little Platte River. The stream is 12 miles long. [2]

According to the State Historical Society of Missouri, Horse Fork may have been named for a horse-powered gristmill near its banks. [3] The source is in the center-north of Clinton County, about 2.5 miles northeast of the extinct town of Delaney. The stream runs southerly, passes east just outside of Plattsburg, and joins the Little Tarkio River.

There is one named tributary of this stream called Reservoir Branch which flows through the Plattsburg Old Reservoir and the Six Mile Lane Lake north of Plattsburg.

See also

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Horse Fork
  2. ↑ Bayless, Mike (2022). Platte River Watershed and Inventory Assessment (PDF). Missouri Department of Conservation. Retrieved March 31, 2025.
  3. ↑ "Clinton County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

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