Highly 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 the
Whig Valley of
Holt County in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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.
It is a tributary of the
Nodaway River
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and is 9.5 miles long.
Etymology
Highly Creek has the name of William Highley, a pioneer citizen. Two other names were formerly used, Buck Branch
and Higley Creek.
The name Highly Creek first appeared on a 1926
USGS
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map.
Geography
Highly Creek is a
right tributary of the Nodaway River and joins it 26.3 miles before its mouth in the
Missouri River
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.
It is the primary stream in the Whig Valley of Holt County, and along it is where the community called Whig Valley existed. It is the first major tributary to converge with the Nodaway River in Holt County.
Course
Highly Creek begins about 4 miles southwest of
Skidmore and 1.5 miles south of the
Atchison-Holt County border. The stream flows southeast and then curves east before it enters the Nodaway River about two miles south of
Maitland.
Crossings
Two highways cross Highly Creek:
Route 113 and
Route C.
See also
*
Tributaries of the Nodaway River
*
List of rivers of Missouri
List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Mississippi River
Arkansas River
*Mississippi River
**Arkansas River (AR ...
References
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Rivers of Holt County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
Tributaries of the Nodaway River