Terrible Creek is a stream in western Ripley County in southeast Missouri. It is a tributary of South Fork Buffalo Creek.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 66,
The stream headwaters are at and its confluence with the South Fork is at . The stream source area lies just north of US Route 160 west of Briar.
Terrible Creek was so named on account of the rugged terrain near its course.
See also List of rivers of Missouri
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