Sons Creek

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Sons Creek is a stream in Dade County in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the Sac River within Stockton Lake.

The stream begins at the confluence of the west and south prongs about five miles northwest of Greenfield at 37°27′19″N93°55′15″W / 37.45528°N 93.92083°W / 37.45528; -93.92083 and the stream flows generally northeast to enter a prong of Stockton Lake just west of the Missouri Route 39 bridge south of Neola. Prior to the flooding of Stockton Lake the stream continued to the northeast to join the Sac River just north of the Ruark Bluff Park and east of the Missouri Route H bridge at 37°32′02″N93°47′44″W / 37.53389°N 93.79556°W / 37.53389; -93.79556 . [1] [2] [3]

Sons Creek has the name of one Mr. Son, a pioneer who settled there in the 1820s. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sons Creek
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 51, ISBN   0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ Crisp, Missouri, Greenfield, Missouri and Lockwood, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangles, USGS, 1952 (revised 1980)
  4. ↑ "Dade County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 25 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)



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