Skullbones Creek or Skullbone Creek is a stream in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of Big River.
The confluence with Big River is adjacent to Missouri Route 30 just southeast of Cedar Hill.[2]
Tradition has it a human skull was found along the course of Skullbones Creek, which accounts for the name.[3]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Skullbones Creek
- ^ Cedar Hill, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1954 (1975 rev.)
- ^ "Jefferson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 19 October 2016.
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