Clear Creek is a stream in Greene County, Missouri, United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Sac River.
The headwaters arise along the railroad line near the community of Elwood southwest of the Springfield airport at 37°13′42″N 93°25′21″W / 37.22833°N 93.42250°W.[1][2] The stream flows to the northwest passing under U.S. Route 160 between Willard and Ash Grove. South of the community of Phenix the stream gains the flow of the south flowing Sugar Creek and turns west-northwest to its confluence with the Sac near the Greene - Dade county line at 37°22′32″N 93°37′03″W / 37.37556°N 93.61750°W.[1][3]
Clear Creek was named for the clear water which characterizes this stream.[4]
See also
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edit- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Clear Creek (Sac River tributary)
- ^ Brookline, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1960 (revised 1975)
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 51-2, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ^ "Greene County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 2 October 2016.
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