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New Boston is an unincorporated community in eastern Linn County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Route 129 approximately sixteen miles northeast of Brookfield. Mussel Fork flows past one mile to the east in adjacent Macon County.
The Chariton River is a 218-mile-long (351 km) tributary to the Missouri River in southeast Iowa and northeast Missouri. The river forms in southeastern Clarke County, Iowa. It is dammed at 11,000-acre (45 km2) Rathbun Reservoir in Appanoose County, Iowa and then flows 30 miles (48 km) before entering Missouri where it forms the boundary between Putnam and Schuyler counties. It enters the Missouri River in Chariton County near Keytesville. 112 miles (180 km) are in Missouri and 106 miles (171 km) are in Iowa. The river has been called Missouri's "Grand Divide" because streams west of the Chariton flow into the Missouri and streams east of it flow into the Mississippi River.
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Spring Creek is a stream in Putnam, Sullivan and Adair counties of northern Missouri. It is a tributary of the Chariton River.
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- 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mussel Fork
- 1 2 Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 22, 23 and 29, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ↑ "Musseling the Mussel Fork (archived)". Missouri Department of Conservation. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
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