Scattering Fork

Scattering Fork is a stream in Audrain County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the South Fork of the Salt River which it joins approximately four miles southeast of Mexico.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 31,

The headwaters arise in southwest Audrian County at at an elevation of approximately 890 feet.Hatton, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1969 It flows initially northeast then turns to the east-southeast passing under US Route 54 four miles south of Mexico and on to its confluence with the South Fork at and an elevation of 751 feet.

Scattering Fork was so named on account of its irregular course.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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