Hungry Mother Creek is a stream in Howard County in the U.S. state of Missouri.
The headwaters of the stream arise in the northeast corner of Howard County at a small lake just west of Missouri Route A about three miles south of Higbee. The stream flows south-southwest passing under Missouri Route O just west of Bunker Hill. It continues to the south-southwest passing under Missouri Route 124 and on to its confluence with Moniteau Creek west of Sebree.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 30
The headwaters are at and the confluence is at .
According to tradition, Hungry Mother Creek was originally called Hunger's Mother Creek, on account of a party of frontiersmen who wintered there.
See also List of rivers of Missouri
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