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Rock Branch (Fivemile Creek tributary)

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Coordinates: 36°58′51″N 94°37′27″W / 36.98083°N 94.62417°W / 36.98083; -94.62417
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Rock Branch (also called Rock Creek) is a stream in the U.S. states of Missouri and Oklahoma.[1] It is a tributary of Fivemile Creek.

The stream headwaters arise at 37°00′19″N 94°33′23″W / 37.00528°N 94.55639°W / 37.00528; -94.55639 approximately five miles southwest of Joplin and one mile south of I-44. The stream flows to the southwest roughly parallel to I-44. The stream confluence with Fivemile Creek is in Oklahoma at 36°58′51″N 94°37′27″W / 36.98083°N 94.62417°W / 36.98083; -94.62417 and just under one half mile west of the Missouri-Oklahoma border.[2][1]

Rock Branch was so named on account of the rocky character of its creek bed.[3]

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References

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rock Branch (Fivemile Creek tributary)
  2. ^ Racine, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1950
  3. ^ "Newton County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016.


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