Elbow Creek is a stream in Taney County, Missouri. The stream headwaters are on the southwest flank of Lime Kiln Mountain within the Mark Twain National Forest. The stream course makes a sharp turn from northeast to southeast about a mile from its source then flows in a meandering fashion south to its confluence with Bull Shoals Lake north of Diamond City which lies across the lake in northern Boone County, Arkansas.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 62,
The source is located at: and the confluence is at: .
Elbow Creek was so named on account of its irregular course.
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