Mill Spring Creek

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

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Mill Spring Creek is a small stream that is located in Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.{{GNIS|730467}} It is a tributary of the Black River.

The stream's source is a spring that emerges on the northeast edge of the Black River floodplain, just south of the community of Mill Spring at {{coord|37|03|35|N|90|40|55|W|display=inline}}. The stream flows south-southeast for one half mile to its confluence with the Black at {{coord|37|03|14|N|90|40|45|W|display=inline}}.Mill Spring, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968 (1985 rev.)

Mill Spring Creek was named for the fact that it was fed by a spring which powered a watermill.{{cite web |url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_wayne.html |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071734/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_wayne.html |archivedate=June 24, 2016 |url-status=dead |title=Wayne County Place Names, 1928–1945 |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=January 1, 2017 }}