Sugar Creek is a stream in Cass County in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the South Grand River.
The stream headwaters arise at 38°36′14″N 94°15′10″W / 38.60389°N 94.25278°W[1] approximately six miles southeast of Harrisonville and 1.5 miles east of the community of Daugherty. The stream crosses under Missouri Route 7 two miles southeast of Daugherty and flows generally south for approximately ten miles to its confluence with the South Grand River at the southern border of Cass County.[2] The confluence is just west of the Settles Ford Conservation Area at 38°27′13″N 94°12′36″W / 38.45361°N 94.21000°W and an elevation of 761 feet.[1]
Sugar Creek was named for the sugar maple trees lining its course.[3]
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edit- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sugar Creek (South Grand River tributary)
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gasetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed, 1998, p. 34 ISBN 0899332242
- ^ "Cass County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
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