Soap Creek is a stream in

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and Wapello counties of

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. It is a tributary of the

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. The stream headwaters arise in Monroe County at adjacent to the west side of Iowa Highway 5 approximately six miles south-southwest of Albia.''Iowa Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 7th ed., 2021, pp. 59-60 The stream flows east and then southeast to pass through the northeast corner of Appanoose County and into Davis County. It flows southeast through a section of the Soap Creek Water Management Area to turn to the east just north of the community of

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. The stream continues east through northeastern Davis County passing under

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and north of the community of Floris. It enters the southeast corner of Wapello County and its confluence with the Des Moines River just south of the city of Eldon at .

References

{{reflist Rivers of Iowa Rivers of Appanoose County, Iowa Rivers of Davis County, Iowa Rivers of Monroe County, Iowa Rivers of Wapello County, Iowa