title: Crooked Creek (Muddy Creek tributary)
text: # Crooked Creek (Muddy Creek tributary)
  
  Crooked Creek is a stream in Johnson and Pettis counties of the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Muddy Creek.
  
  The stream headwaters arise at 38°36′16″N 93°30′15″W﻿ / ﻿38.60444°N 93.50417°W﻿ / 38.60444; -93.50417 in western Pettis County about 125 feet east of the Pettis-Johnson county line approximately five miles north of Windsor. The stream flows generally due north parallel to the county line and routes B and AA past the community of Owsley. The stream veers west into Johnson County for the last half mile before entering Muddy Creek at 38°40′25″N 93°30′30″W﻿ / ﻿38.67361°N 93.50833°W﻿ / 38.67361; -93.50833 about three miles southeast of Whiteman Air Force Base.
  
  Crooked Creek was so named due to the frequent meanders along its course.
  
  