Sugar Creek (Wyaconda River tributary)

Sugar Creek is a stream in Clark and Lewis Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Wyaconda River.

The stream source is in southern Clark County approximately one-half mile north of the Clark-Lewis county line at and an elevation of about 720 feet.Neeper, Mo, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 The stream flows to the east-southeast into Lewis County and passes about one mile north of Williamstown. It continues to the southeast passing the community of Benjamin where it turns more to the southeast and crosses under Missouri Route 16. It enters the Wyaconda River approximately three miles west of CantonMissouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, pp. 24-25 at at an elevation of 522 feet.

Sugar Creek most likely was named for the sugar maple trees along its course.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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