Hurricane Creek (Missouri River tributary)

Hurricane Creek is a stream in northern Howard County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Missouri River which it enters just south of Glasgow.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, 1998, Delorme p.30

The stream headwaters arise approximately one mile west of Missouri Route 5 five miles northwest of Fayette at at an altitude of 850 feet.Fayette, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1953 (1979 rev.) The stream flows due west six miles passing under Missouri Route 87 about one mile south of Glasgow to its confluence with the Missouri at at an elevation of 614 feet.

Hurricane Creek was named for an incident when a tornado flattened trees in the area.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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