East Mill Creek

East Mill Creek is a stream in Page County, Iowa and Nodaway County, Missouri in the United States. It is an indirect tributary of the Nodaway River via Mill Creek and is 8.4 miles long.

Etymology

East Mill Creek has also been denoted as Mill Creek. Some maps denote the section of stream between the confluence of the East and Middle Mill Creeks as Middle Mill Creek though according to GNIS and the MDC that section is properly denoted as East Mill Creek.

Geography

The confluence of East Mill Creek and West Mill Creek form Mill Creek with East Mill Creek as a left tributary. The confluence is 12.3 miles before Mill Creek's mouth in the Nodaway River.

Course

Beginning near the midpoint between College Springs and Shambaugh, East Mill Creek flows southerly and then southwesterly passed College Springs to the south. It is joined by Middle Mill Creek one mile north of the Iowa-Missouri border and continues southwest where it meets West Mill Creek and forms Mill Creek three-fifths of a mile south of the aforementioned state border in northwestern Nodaway County, Missouri.

Tributaries

Middle Mill Creek is the only named tributary of East Mill Creek and its confluence is in southern Amity Township.

Crossings

East Mill Creek is crossed by two Secondary Highways, J52 and J64, northeast and southeast of College Springs, respectively.