Bear Creek (Osage River tributary)

Bear Creek is a stream in Miller County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Osage River.

The stream headwaters arise on the north side of a ridge about two miles north of Brumley (at ) at an elevation of about .Brumley, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1987 The stream flows northwest to north passing the old community of Blackmer to its confluence with the Osage adjacent to Wolf Creek (at ) at an elevation of .Bagnell, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1983

Bear Creek was so named due to frequent sightings of bears near its course.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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