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Missouri Outstanding Resource Waters

Listing of Missouri Outsatnding Resource Waters as listed in Rules of Department of Natural Resources
Division 20—Clean Water Commission
Chapter 7—Water Quality 

Outstanding National Resource Waters

Water Body

                    Location

                       County(ies)

Current River

                    Headwaters to Northern Ripley Co. Line
                    Sec. 22,32N,07W to Sec. 15,25N,01E

                        Dent to Ripley

Jacks Fork River

                    Headwaters to Mouth 
                    Sec. 29,28N,07W to Sec. 9/15,29N,03W

                        Texas to Shannon

Eleven Point River

                    Headwaters to Hwy. 142 
                    Sec. 32,25N,05W to Sec. 21,22N,02W

                        Oregon

 

Outstanding State Resource Waters  

Water Body     

Miles/Acres

Location

County(ies)

Baker Branch

4

mi.

Taberville Prairie

St. Clair

Bass Creek

1

mi.

in Three Creek Conservation Area

Boone

Big Buffalo Creek

1.5

mi.

Big Buffalo Creek Conservation Area

Benton-Morgan

Big Creek

5.3

mi.

Sam A. Baker State Park

Wayne

Big Sugar Creek

7

mi.

Cuivre River State Park

Lincoln

Big Lake Marsh

150

ac.

Big Lake State Park

Holt

Blue Springs Creek

4

mi.

Blue Spring Creek Conservation Area

Crawford

Bonne Femme Creek

2

mi.

Three Creeks Conservation Area

Boone

Brush Creek

0.7

mi.

Bonanza Conservation Area

Caldwell

Bryant Creek

1.5

mi.

Bryant Creek Natural Area in Rippee
Conservation Area

Ozark/Douglas

Bull Creek

8

mi.

Mark Twain National Forest
Sec. 24,25N,21W to Sec. 22,26N,20W

Christian

Cathedral Cave Branch

5

mi.

Onondaga Cave State Park

Crawford

Chariton River

9.8

mi.

Rebels Cove Conservation Area

Putnam-Schuyler

Chloe Lowry Marsh

40

ac.

Chloe Lowry Marsh Conservation Area

Mercer

Coakley Hollow

1.5

mi.

Lake of the Ozarks State Park

Camden

Coonville Creek

2

mi.

St. Francois State Park

St. Francois

Courtois Creek         

12

mi.

Mouth to Hwy. 8  

Crawford

Crabapple Creek

1.0

mi.

Bonanza Conservation Area

Caldwell

Devils Ice Box Cave Branch

1.5

mi.

Rock Bridge State Park

Boone

East Fork Black River

3

mi.

Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park

Reynolds

First Nicholson Creek (East Drywood Creek)

2

mi.

Prairie State Park

Barton

Gan’s Creek

3

mi.

Rock Bridge State Park

Boone

Huzzah Creek

6

mi.

Mouth to Hwy. 8

Crawford

Indian Creek

17.5

mi.

Mark Twain National Forest

Douglas-Howell

Ketchum Hollow

1.5

mi.

Roaring River State Park

Barry

Little Piney Creek

25

mi.

Mouth to 21,35N,08W

Phelps

Little Black River

3

mi.

Mud Puppy Natural History Area
S22,T24N,R3E to S25,T24N,R3E  

Ripley

Log Creek

0.4

mi.

Bonanza Conservation Area

Caldwell

Meramec River

8

mi.

Adjacent to Meramac State Park

Crawford/Franklin

Meramec River

3

mi.

Adjacent to Onondaga and Huzzah State Forest

Crawford

Mill Creek

5

mi.

Mark Twain National Forest

Phelps

N. Fork White River

5.5

mi

Mark Twain National Forest

Ozark

Noblett Creek

5

mi.

Above Noblett Lake, Mark Twain National Forest

Douglas-Howell

Onondaga Cave Branch

0.6

mi.

Onondaga Cave State Park

Crawford

Pickle Creek

3

mi.

Hawn State Park

Ste. Genevieve

S. Prong L. Black River

2

mi.

In Little Black Conservation Area

Ripley

Shoal Creek

0.5

mi.

Bonanza Conservation Area

Caldwell

Spring Creek

17

mi.

Mark Twain National Forest

Douglas

Spring Creek

6.5

mi.

Mark Twain National Forest

Phelps

Taum Sauk Creek

5.5

mi.

Johnson’s Shut-Ins State Park Addition
S23,T33N,R2E to S5,T33N,R3E

Reynolds-Iron

Turkey Creek

4.6

mi.

In Three Creeks Conservation Area

Boone

Van Meter Marsh

80

ac.

Van Meter State Park

Saline

Whetstone Creek

5.1

mi.

Whetsone Creek Conservation Area

Callaway

 

 


  

 Missouri Section 303(d) – Impaired Waters

www.dnr.mo.gov/env/wpp/waterquality/303d.htm