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Capps Creek (Current River tributary)

Coordinates: 36°42′45″N 90°53′26″W / 36.71250°N 90.89056°W / 36.71250; -90.89056
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Capps Creek is a stream in Ripley County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the Current River.[2]

The stream headwaters arise just west of Missouri Route Y at 36°44′17″N 90°51′52″W / 36.73806°N 90.86444°W / 36.73806; -90.86444[1] at an elevation of about 580 feet[3] and it flows west then meanders south to its confluence with the Current at 36°42′45″N 90°53′26″W / 36.71250°N 90.89056°W / 36.71250; -90.89056 at an elevation of 358 Feet.[1] The confluence is about seven miles northwest of Doniphan.[4]

Capps Creek has the name of Nimrod Capps, an early settler.[5]

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  1. ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Capps Creek (Current River tributary)
  2. ^ Brier, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1997
  3. ^ Doniphan North, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1997
  4. ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 66, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  5. ^ "Ripley County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.