West Mill Creek
| West Mill Creek | |
|---|---|
 West Mill Creek on Iowa Highway J64 bridge south of College Springs, Iowa | |
 Mill Creek Watershed map, Middle Mill Creek in top left | |
| Location | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Iowa and  Missouri |
| County | Page and Nodaway |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Nodaway Township |
| • coordinates | 40°44′00″N 95°05′31″W / 40.7333252°N 95.0919251°W[1] |
| • elevation | 1,190 ft (360 m) |
| Mouth | Mill Creek |
• location | Lincoln Township |
• coordinates | 40°34′07″N 95°08′40″W / 40.5686046°N 95.1444228°W[1] |
• elevation | 971 ft (296 m)[1] |
| Length | 15.9 mi (25.6 km)[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | West Mill Creek → Mill Creek → Nodaway River → Missouri River → Mississippi River → Atlantic Ocean |
West Mill Creek is a stream in Page County, Iowa and Nodaway County, Missouri in the United States.[1] IIt is an indirect tributary of the Nodaway River via Mill Creek and is 15.9 miles long.[2]
Etymology
West Mill Creek has also been denoted as Mill Creek.[3]
Geography
The confluence of West Mill Creek and East Mill Creek form Mill Creek with West Mill Creek as a right tributary. The conflunce is 12.3 miles before Mill Creek's mouth in the Nodaway River.[4]
Course
West Mill Creek begins just south of Iowa 2 three miles west of Clarinda and flows southwesterly in the westernmost stretches of the Nodaway River watershed, near the Tarkio River watershed. It passes a mile west of College Springs[5] and continues southerly towards the Iowa-Missouri border where it crosses four miles east of Blanchard. It continues three-fifths of a mile south of the aforementioned state border where it meets with the East Mill Creek to form Mill Creek in northwestern Nodaway County, Missouri.
Crossings
West Mill Creek is crossed by five Secondary Highways: J40, J52, J56, J64, and M63.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: West Mill Creek
- ^ a b Horton, Rick (2022). Nodaway River Watershed and Inventory Assessment (PDF). Missouri Department of Conservation. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 7, 2024. Retrieved December 19, 2024.
- ^ "Coin, IA - 1940". TopoView. USGS. Retrieved May 28, 2025.
- ^ "MO USGS HUC12 Watershed Boundaries". Missouri Spatial Data Information Service. Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Archived from the original on April 15, 2025. Retrieved April 12, 2025.
- ^ History of Page County, Iowa - Volume 1. Chicago : S.J. Clarke Publishing Co. 1909. p. 456.