Turkey Creek is a stream in the Ozarks of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas. It is a tributary of Lake Taneycomo. The stream source is two-thirds of a mile south of the Missouri - Arkansas border in Boone County north of the village of Crest. The Missouri Pacific Railroad line follows the stream course after exiting the Crest railroad tunnel under Arkansas State Route 14 at Crest.Omaha, Arkansas-Missouri 7.5 minute Topographic Quad., USGS 1967 North of the state line in Taney County the stream flows north through west Hollister to its confluence with Lake Taneycomo south of Branson. The stream covers a linear distance of between the border and its confluence.Hollister Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1989Branson Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1989
Turkey Creek was so named on account of the wild turkeys in the area.
See also List of rivers of Arkansas List of rivers of Missouri
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