Cowskin Creek

{{Short description|Stream in the American state of Missouri}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

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| image = File:Beaver Creek - Cowskin Creek.jpg

| image_caption = The junction of Beaver and Cowskin creeks west of Arno. Looking southeast from Beaver Creek bridge, Cowskin entering from behind gravel bar on the left.

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| subdivision_name1 = United States

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| subdivision_name2 = Missouri

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| subdivision_name3 = Douglas and Webster counties

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| source1_coordinates= {{coordinates|37|05|31|N|92|41|48|W|display=inline}}

| source1_elevation = Approximately {{Convert|1400|ft|abbr=on}}Cedar Gap, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 (1977 rev.)

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| tributaries_left = Casto Creek, Prairie Creek

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Cowskin Creek is a stream in northwest Douglas and extreme southeastern Webster counties of Missouri.{{GNIS|716417}} Cowskin has its headwaters in southeast Webster County west of Cedar Gap and is a tributary to Beaver Creek which it joins just west of the Arno store. The stream is bridged by Missouri Route 14 just east of the junction with Missouri Route K.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p.63, {{ISBN|0-89933-224-2}}

According to tradition, a pioneer citizen skinned cows who had died of disease near this creek.{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_douglas.html |title=Douglas County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=28 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071714/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_douglas.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}