Whites Creek (Hunter Creek tributary)

Whites Creek is an Ozark stream in Douglas County, Missouri. It is a tributary of Hunter Creek.

The headwaters are at an elevation of about 1,250 feetAva, Missouri 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1982 and the mouth is at an elevation of 863 feet.

Whites Creek begins as a south flowing stream on the south side of Table Rock Knob just southeast of Ava and flows south for a short distance before turning east. The stream runs parallel to Missouri Route 14 and is bridged where the road turns south. Hoffmeister Spring emerges from a bluff along the north side of the stream a few hundred yards east of the bridge at and an elevation of 892 feet.GNIS for Hoffmeister SpringMissouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 63,

Whites Creek has the name of a pioneer citizen with the surname White.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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