Mill Creek (Elk River tributary)

{{Short description|Stream in the US states of Arkansas and Missouri}}

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

Mill Creek is a stream in Benton County, Arkansas and

McDonald County, Missouri.{{GNIS|52001}} It is a tributary of Elk River.

The headwaters are in Arkansas about four miles east of Sulphur Springs at {{coord|36|28|24|N|94|23|11|W|display=inline}} and the confluence with the Elk is in Missouri just northeast of Noel at {{coord|36|32|55|N|94|28|59|W|display=inline,title}} at an elevation of {{convert|820|ft}}.Gravette, AR-MO and Noel, MO 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangles, USGS, 1971 and 1982

Mill Creek was named for a saw mill at its banks.{{cite web | url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_mcdonald.html | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071801/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_mcdonald.html | archivedate=June 24, 2016 | url-status=dead | title=McDonald County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri | accessdate=November 4, 2016 }}