East Mill Creek
{{short description|Stream in Iowa and Missouri, U.S.}}
{{Notability|1=Geographic|date=May 2025}}
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| image = File:EastMillCreekJ64.jpg
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| image_caption = East Mill Creek on Iowa Highway J64 bridge south of College Springs, Iowa
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| map_caption = Mill Creek Watershed map, East Mill Creek in top right
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| subdivision_name3 = Page and Nodaway
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| source1_location = Amity Township
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| mouth = Mill Creek
| mouth_location = Lincoln Township
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| progression = East Mill Creek → Mill Creek → Nodaway River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Atlantic Ocean
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East Mill Creek is a stream in Page County, Iowa and Nodaway County, Missouri in the United States.{{GNIS|717323}} It is an indirect tributary of the Nodaway River via Mill Creek and is 8.4 miles long.{{cite book | url=https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/280_2022_NodawayRiver.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240707144459/https://mdc.mo.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/280_2022_NodawayRiver.pdf |archive-date=July 7, 2024 | title=Nodaway River Watershed and Inventory Assessment | publisher=Missouri Department of Conservation | author=Horton, Rick | year=2022 | access-date=December 19, 2024}}
Etymology
East Mill Creek has also been denoted as Mill Creek.{{cite web|url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/viewer/#11/40.6197/-95.1465|title=Blanchard, IA - 1981|website=TopoView|publisher=USGS|access-date=May 28, 2025}} Some maps denote the section of stream between the confluence of the East and Middle Mill Creeks as Middle Mill Creekhttps://iagenweb.org/page/maps/pageco/pageB.html{{cite web|url=https://iowadot.gov/travel-tools/maps/city-county-traffic-maps/all-counties/page|title=Page County Map|publisher=IOWADOT|access-date=May 28, 2025}} though according to GNIS and the MDC that section is properly denoted as East Mill Creek.
Geography
The confluence of East Mill Creek and West Mill Creek form Mill Creek with East Mill Creek as a left tributary. The confluence is 12.3 miles before Mill Creek's mouth in the Nodaway River.
= Course =
Beginning near the midpoint between College Springs and Shambaugh, East Mill Creek flows southerly and then southwesterly passed College Springs to the south.{{cite book|title=History of Page County, Iowa - Volume 1|publisher= Chicago: S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1909 |page=456}} It is joined by Middle Mill Creek one mile north of the Iowa-Missouri border and continues southwest where it meets West Mill Creek and forms Mill Creek three-fifths of a mile south of the aforementioned state border in northwestern Nodaway County, Missouri.
= Tributaries =
Middle Mill Creek is the only named tributary of East Mill Creek and its confluence is in southern Amity Township.
= Crossings =
East Mill Creek is crossed by two Secondary Highways, J52 and J64, northeast and southeast of College Springs, respectively.