Bracken Creek

Bracken Creek is a small, mostly intermittent stream in Webster County, Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the Osage Fork Gasconade River.

The stream source is at: 37°19′43″N 92°45′33″W and the confluence is at 37°22′26″N 92°47′23″W.[1] The stream headwaters are northeast of Bracken and it flows north then northwest roughly parallel to Missouri Route JJ to its confluence with Osage Fork south of Route M and east-southeast of Niangua.[2]

Bracken Creek has the name of the local Bracken family.[3]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bracken Creek
  2. High Prairie Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982
  3. "Webster County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.


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