Deepwater Creek is a

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

in Henry County in west central

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. It is a

tributary A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream (''main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which they ...

of the

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. The stream begins at the

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of North Deepwater Creek and South Deepwater Creek in western Henry County (at ) east-southeast of the community of Johnstown. The stream flows east-northeast passing under

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north of Germantown. The stream is impounded as Montrose Lake within the Montrose Conservation Area. Below the Montrose Dam the stream flows generally east passing south of La Due. It continues to the east passing north of Deepwater to enter the Truman Reservoir west of the

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bridge (at ) at an elevation of . The stream was known as a ''stream of deep water'' and the name ''Deepwater'' also served as a school, a village post office and

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in the vicinity.''Henry County Place Names, 1928-1945'', The State Historical Society of Missouri
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References

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