La Barque Creek

{{short description|Stream in Jefferson County, Missouri, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

'''La Barque Creek''' is a [[stream]] in [[Jefferson County, Missouri|Jefferson County]] in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Missouri]].<ref>{{GNIS|720709}}</ref> It is a tributary of the [[Meramec River]].

La Barque is a name derived from the French denoting "the boat".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jefferson.html |title=Jefferson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=19 October 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071321/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_jefferson.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}</ref>

==See also== *[[List of rivers of Missouri]]

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[[Category:Rivers of Jefferson County, Missouri]] [[Category:Rivers of Missouri]]

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