Bates Creek is a stream in Washington County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Mine a Breton Creek.
The stream headwaters are at and its confluence with Mine a Breton Creek is at . Bates Creek source area lies south of Potosi, and flows north passing west of Potosi before turning northeast and passing under Missouri routes 8 and 185 just before joining the Mine a Breton just northwest of the city.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 2007, Third edition, p. 48
Bates Creek has the name of Moses Bates, proprietor of a local blast furnace.
See also List of rivers of Missouri
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