Pleasant Run Creek (Missouri)

Coordinates: 37°42′40″N 94°23′47″W / 37.71111°N 94.39639°W / 37.71111; -94.39639
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Pleasant Run Creek is a stream in northern Barton and southern Vernon counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of the Little Dry Wood Creek.

The stream headwaters arise along the west side of US Route 71 between Irwin and Sheldon. It flows generally northwest to its confluence with the Little Dry Wood Creek about three miles northeast of Bronaugh.[2]

The stream source area is at 37°37′18″N 94°18′27″W / 37.62167°N 94.30750°W / 37.62167; -94.30750 and the confluence is at 37°42′40″N 94°23′47″W / 37.71111°N 94.39639°W / 37.71111; -94.39639.[1]

Pleasant Run Creek was so named due to the "pleasant" setting of its watercourse.[3]

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  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Pleasant Run Creek (Missouri)
  2. ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 50, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. ^ "Vernon County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2016.