Marrowbone Creek
Marrowbone Creek is a stream in Daviess County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Honey Creek. According to tradition, Marrowbone Creek was named from an incident when some frontiersmen cooked and ate copious amounts of elk bone marrow near the creek.Marrowbone Creek
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Missouri
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Daviess, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.86751° or 39° 52′ 3″ north
Longitude
-93.94105° or 93° 56′ 28″ west
Elevation
725 feet (221 metres)
Open location code
86F8V395+2H
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From Catalan to Venetian—“Marrowbone Creek” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Marrowbone Creek”
- Venetian: “Marrowbone”
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