Turkey_Creek_(Spring_River)

Turkey Creek (Spring River tributary)

Turkey Creek (Spring River tributary)

Stream in the U.S. state of Missouri

Turkey Creek is a stream in Jasper and Newton counties of southwest Missouri and Cherokee county of southeastern Kansas in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Spring River.

The stream headwaters arise in Newton County at 37°01′03″N 94°23′03″W in Newton County[1] at an elevation of approximately 1170 feet.[2] The stream flows to the north into Jasper County and passes under I-44 southeast of Duenweg. It the turns to the northwest and flows past through the north side of Joplin passing under U.S. Route 71 and Missouri Route 43.[3] It continues to the west-northwest past the community of Belleville and into southeastern Kansas. Its confluence with the Spring River is one-half mile west of the Missouri-Kansas state line[4] at 37°07′47″N 94°37′36″W at an elevation of 814 feet.[1]

Turkey Creek was named for the wild turkeys along its course.[5]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Turkey Creek (Spring River tributary)
  2. [2]
    Joplin East, MO., 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1963 (1979 rev.)
  3. [3]
    Joplin West, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1962 (1979 rev.)
  4. [4]
    Crestline, KS, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1959 (1979 rev.)
  5. [5]
    "Jasper County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)



This article related to a river in Kansas is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article related to a river in Missouri is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Turkey_Creek_(Spring_River), and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.