House Creek, Missouri

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Missouri, U.S.}}

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House Creek is an unincorporated community in northwestern Carter County, in the Ozarks of southeastern Missouri, United States.{{GNIS|719890}} The community is located on Missouri Route M, on the north side of House Creek, approximately two miles west of its confluence with the Current River. Van Buren lies about three miles to the southeast.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 66, {{ISBN|0-89933-224-2}}

The nearby stream of the same name was named after Matthew House, a pioneer settler.{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_carter.html |title=Carter County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=11 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071729/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_carter.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}