Blue Spring Creek
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Blue Spring Creek is a stream in eastern Morgan County and western Miller County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Little Gravois Creek.{{GNIS|714436}}
The stream headwaters arise about seven miles southwest of Eldon near Rocky Mount on Missouri Route Y at {{coord|38|17|17|N|92|41|55|W|display=inline}} and it flows generally southeast to its confluence with Little Gravois at {{coord|38|15|15|N|92|38|56|W|display=inline,title}} about three miles northwest of the community of Bagnell. Springs including Blue Spring occur about midway along the stream course near the Missouri Route Z crossing.Rocky Mount, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1983
Blue Spring Creek is fed by a spring characterized by its blue water, hence the name.{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_miller.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071356/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_miller.html | archivedate = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Miller County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate= November 6, 2016}}
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Category:Rivers of Morgan County, Missouri
Category:Rivers of Miller County, Missouri
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