Sloan Creek (Missouri)

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Sloan Creek is a stream in eastern Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, in the United States. [1] It is a tributary to the Mississippi River.

The stream headwaters arise in north Cape Girardeau at and it flows southeasterly approximately 2.5 miles through northeast Cape Girardeau to enter the Mississippi due east of Southeast Missouri State College at . [2]

The stream was named after the owner of a local mill. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sloan Creek (Missouri)
  2. ↑ Cape Girardeau, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangele, USGS, 1967 (1978 rev.)
  3. ↑ "Out of the Past". The Southeast Missourian. Mar 14, 1950. p. 6. Retrieved 23 May 2015.

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