Leboeuf 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 ...

Osage County Osage County is the name of several counties in the United States: * Osage County, Kansas * Osage County, Missouri * Osage County, Oklahoma Osage County () is the largest county by area in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created in 1907 when Ok ...

of central

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. It is a tributary of the

Gasconade River The Gasconade River is about longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 and is located in central and south-central Missouri. The Gasconade River begins in the O ...

. The stream

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are located at and the

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with the Gasconade is at . The stream source lies just north of Pilot Knob and it runs to the northwest roughly parallel to and southwest of

Missouri Route 89 Route 89 is a highway in central Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 100 (Missouri), Route 100 in Chamois, Missouri, Chamois; its southern terminus is at Route 28 (Missouri), Route 28 in Belle, Missouri, Belle. A short spur of Highway ...

. The confluence with the Gasconade is about three-quarters of a mile south of the route 89 bridge. Leboeuf Creek has the name of the local Lebouef family.

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Rivers of Osage County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri Tributaries of the Gasconade River {{OsageCountyMO-river-stub

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