Little Piney Creek (Missouri)

Little Piney Creek is a stream in the Phelps, Texas and Dent counties of the Ozarks of southern Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the Gasconade River.

Coordinates of the stream source are: 37°35′06″N 91°47′29″W and of the confluence with the Gasconade are: 37°55′13″N 91°58′31″W.[1]

The stream headwaters are in northeastern Texas County about one mile southeast of the community of Maples. The stream flows northwest into southeastern Phelps County and flows north parallel to U. S. Route 63 passing just east of the community of Craddock and Edgar Springs. The stream course meanders across the Phelps - Dent County line a few times finally turning northwest and crossing under U.S. 63 at Yancy Mills. The stream meanders north through the Mark Twain National Forest and turns west at the confluence with Beaver Creek. The stream continues to the west passing Newburg and under Interstate 44 to its confluence with the Gasconade River at Jerome.[2]

Little Piney Creek was so named due to an abundance of pine trees near its banks.[3]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Piney Creek (Missouri)
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 46 and 54, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. "Phelps County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 5, 2016.


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