Perche Creek, or Roche Perche 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 Boone and Randolph counties in the

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. Besides the

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it is the largest stream in

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and forms much of the western border of the city of

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. The northern source is in southeast Randolph County approximately six miles south of Moberly. Perche Creek was named for a natural bridge on a cliff of the

near the former location of the mouth of the Perche. The

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called it Roche Perche ("pierced rock") and the Kentuckians and Virginians who settled Boone County adopted the name from them. Currently the Roche Perche flows into the Missouri River about a mile north of

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Geography of Columbia, Missouri Rivers of Boone County, Missouri Rivers of Randolph County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{RandolphCountyMO-river-stub

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