Elk Creek (Gasconade River tributary)

Elk Creek is a stream in central to northeast Wright County, Missouri. It is a tributary of the Gasconade River.

The stream headwaters arise some eight miles north-northwest of Hartville between the communities of Loring and Durbin. The stream flows to the north and northeast passing under routes H and Z to its confluence with the Gasconade in northern Wright County about 1.5 miles southeast of Competition in southern Laclede County.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 53

Elk Creek was because of elk in the area.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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