Lost Camp Creek is a stream in north-central
Howell County in the
Ozarks
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of southern
Missouri
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.
It is a tributary of the
Eleven Point River
The Eleven Point River is a river in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, United States.
Eleven Point
While the river originates near Willow Springs, Missouri, it is generally a losing stream upstream of the confluence with the Middle Fork ...
.
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 64 ]
The stream headwaters arise just to the north of the community of
Burnham at
[ and approximately four miles south of Willow Springs. The stream flows to the east-southeast passing under ]US Route 63
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and continues for approximately ten miles to its confluence with the Eleven Point River just to the east of Missouri Route 17
Route 17 is a highway in central and southern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at U.S. Route 54 in Eugene, which is six miles (10 km) northeast of Eldon; its southern terminus is at the Arkansas state line where it continues into Arkan ...
and 6.5 miles southwest of Mountain View at .[
The name of the stream relates to some person or group being lost in the area according to a variety of sources.Howell County Place Names, 1928-1945]
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References
Rivers of Howell County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
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