Strother Creek is a
stream
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in southwest
Iron
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and northern
Reynolds counties in the
U.S. state
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of
Missouri
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.
It is a tributary to the
Middle Fork of the Black River.
The stream headwaters arise in southwestern Iron County just south of
Buick
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and the Buick Mine and east of
Missouri Route KK. The stream flows south for about one-half mile then turns to the east to flow adjacent to the Iron-Reynolds county line and crossing the county line a number of times. The stream reaches its confluence with the Middle Fork Black River just south of the county line and west of
Missouri Route 49
Route 49 is a highway in eastern Missouri. Its northern terminus is at Route 19 in Cherryville, and its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 67 five miles (8 km) east of Williamsville.
The highway runs through the eastern part of the O ...
and about two miles northwest of
Edgehill.
[''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 56, ] The upper portion of the stream contains several
tailings pond
In mining, tailings or tails are the materials left over after the process of separating the valuable fraction from the uneconomic fraction (gangue) of an ore. Tailings are different from overburden, which is the waste rock or other material th ...
areas from the mines near its source.
The source area is at and the confluence is at . The confluence is at an elevation of .
[
Strother Creek has the name of the local Strother family.]
See also
*List of rivers of Missouri
List of rivers in Missouri (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Mississippi River
Arkansas River
*Mississippi River
**Arkansas River (AR ...
References
Rivers of Iron County, Missouri
Rivers of Reynolds County, Missouri
Rivers of Missouri
Tributaries of the Black River (Arkansas–Missouri)
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