Volume 2 , Number 3 , Spring 1965 It would be interesting to
know just how many streams of water in our United States bear
the name Spring Creek and/or Spring River. No doubt there would
be half a hundred or more. For, to the early settlers, the
logical name for a stream which had as its "head" a spring of
clear cold water and was nourished by additional springs along
its course was Spring Creek or Spring River. Thats how our
Spring Creek, in northern Stone County, Missouri, got its name.
Its "head" is Browns Spring, so named for a pioneer settler
named Burton Brown. The watershed, which begins south of
Billings in Christian County, spans out and covers much
territory. As the crow flies, Spring Creeks length before it
empties into Crane Creek is perhaps five and a half miles. But
adding the twists and turns where the stream meanders around a
hill and turns abruptly to the right or to the left, the overall
length would be nearer seven miles. It flows almost due south
from Browns Spring. More than twenty spring