The Osage Fork Gasconade River is a stream in
Wright
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,
Webster and
Laclede counties in the
Ozarks
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of southern
Missouri
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.
It is a tributary of the
Gasconade River.
The stream headwaters arise in Webster County near the intersection of Missouri routes
C and P about seven miles north of
Seymour.
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 53, ][''High Prairie, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982] The stream flows north past
High Prairie
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where it turns to the northwest. It flows under
Missouri Route 38 about five miles east of
Marshfield and turns to the northeast as it passes under
Missouri Route DD. It passes about 3.5 miles east of
Niangua and continues to the northeast passing under
Missouri Route ZZ just west of
Rader to enter Laclede County. It meanders to the southeast and crosses into the northwest corner of Wright County before returning to a northeast direction back into Laclede County adjacent to the community of
Pease. It meanders on northeast passing under
Missouri Route 5 and then
Missouri Route 32
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south of
Drynob. It meanders north and enters the Gasconade about one mile south of
I-44 and 1.5 miles west of the Laclede-
Pulaski county line.
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References
Rivers of Laclede County, Missouri
Rivers of Webster County, Missouri
Rivers of Wright County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
Tributaries of the Gasconade River
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