Scattering Fork is a stream in Audrain County in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the South Fork of the Salt River which it joins approximately four miles southeast of Mexico. [2]
The headwaters arise in southwest Audrian County at [1] at an elevation of approximately 890 feet. [3] It flows initially northeast then turns to the east-southeast passing under US Route 54 four miles south of Mexico and on to its confluence with the South Fork [2] at and an elevation of 751 feet. [1]
Scattering Fork was so named on account of its irregular course. [4]
