Jones Creek (Center Creek tributary)

Jones Creek is a stream in Jasper and Newton counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Center Creek.

The stream headwaters arise in Newton County at at an elevation of about 1260 feet.Newtonia, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1972 The stream flows to the northwest passing the communities of Pepsin and Parshley. It passes under I-44 and gains the tributary of Jenkins Creek. Its confluence with Center Creek is just east of U.S. Route 71 approximately three miles south of Carthage in Jasper CountyFidelity, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1963 (1979 rev.) at at an elevation of 955 feet.

Jones Creek has the name of the local Jones family.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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