{{short description|American stream in Missouri}} {{Orphan|date=January 2017}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} '''Lazy Branch''' is a stream in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Missouri.<ref>{{GNIS|720852}}</ref> It is a tributary of the North River.
Lazy Branch was named by W.C. Dingle, because he "thought the settlers along the stream were lazy because they preferred to hunt and run horses rather than work."<ref>{{cite web| url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_marion.html| title=Marion County Place Names, 1928-1945| publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| accessdate=18 April 2017| archive-date=24 June 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070655/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_marion.html| url-status=dead}}</ref>
==See also== *List of rivers of Missouri
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Category:Rivers of Jackson County, Missouri Category:Rivers of Missouri
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