Coon Creek (Osage River tributary)

Coon Creek is a stream in Miller County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Osage River.

The stream headwaters arise along the south side of Missouri Route A about one mile east of that roads intersection with Missouri Route 17. The stream flows northeast passing under Route A then turns north-northwest to pass under Missouri Route 52 and enters the Osage about three miles northeast (downstream) of Tuscumbia.

The headwaters are at: and an elevation of about .Tuscumbia, Missouri, and Eugene, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangles, USGS, 1987 The confluence with the Osage is at: at an elevation of .

Coon Creek was so named due to the presence of raccoons near its course.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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