Back Creek (Missouri)

Back Creek is a stream in eastern St. Francois County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Wolf Creek which it joins about four miles southeast of Farmington, Missouri.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 57

The headwaters arise about one mile north of Libertyvile at and the stream flows northwest to west to its confluence with Wolf Creek at .

Back Creek was named for the fact due to its irregular mouth, the creek backs up during high water.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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