West Mill Creek


West Mill Creek is a stream in Page County, Iowa and Nodaway County, Missouri in the United States. IIt is an indirect tributary of the Nodaway River via Mill Creek and is 15.9 miles long.

Etymology

West Mill Creek has also been denoted as Mill Creek.

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.

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 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.