{{Short description|Stream in the US state of Missouri}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} '''Yeater Branch''' is a stream in Warren County in the U.S. state of Missouri.<ref name=gnis>{{GNIS|729197}}</ref> It is a tributary of Big Creek.<ref name=Hawk>''Hawk Point, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1973 (1986 rev.)</ref>
The stream headwaters arise along the north side of I-70 and one mile northeast of the community of Pendleton at {{coord|38|50|01|N|91|12|57|W|display=inline}}<ref name=gnis/> and an elevation of 875 feet.<ref>''Warrenton, MO,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1973 (1986 rev.)</ref> The stream flows to the north for about three miles along and to the east of Missouri Route A then turns east for about 2.5 miles to its confluence with Big Creek one half mile west of Missouri Route 47<ref name=Hawk/> at {{coord|38|52|53|N|91|08|30|W|display=inline,title}} and an elevation of 633 feet.<ref name=gnis/>
Yeater Branch has the name of Conrad Yeater, a pioneer citizen.<ref>{{cite web | url =http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_warren.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624071057/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_warren.html | archive-date = June 24, 2016 | url-status = live | title=Warren County Place Names, 1928–1945 | publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri| access-date= December 30, 2016}}</ref>
==See also== *List of rivers of Missouri
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Category:Rivers of Warren County, Missouri Category:Rivers of Missouri
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