Sweet Spring Creek is a stream in Randolph County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the East Fork Little Chariton River.
The stream headwaters arise within the western part of Moberly at at an elevation of approximately 850 feet.Moberly, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1953 (1983 rev.) The stream meanders to the west for approximately 12 miles essentially parallel to and about three miles south of US Route 24. It reaches its confluence with the Little Chariton approximately 1.5 miles south-southeast of the community of Clifton Hill.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1st ed. 1998, p. 30, The confluence is at at an elevation of 653 feet.
Sweet Spring Creek was so named on account of its sweet-tasting, clean water.
See also List of rivers of Missouri
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