Parched Corn Creek or Parched Corn Hollow is a stream valley in Christian and Greene counties in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri.[1] It is a tributary of Finley Creek.

The stream headwaters in southeastern Greene County are at 37°05′41″N 93°06′39″W / 37.09472°N 93.11083°W / 37.09472; -93.11083 and the confluence with Finley Creek in Ozark County is at 37°02′29″N 93°10′28″W / 37.04139°N 93.17444°W / 37.04139; -93.17444.[1] The source area for the stream is in the southeast corner of Greene County and it flows to the southwest into Christian County and crosses under Missouri Route 125. It continues on southwest to join the Finley about halfway between Linden and Ozark.[2]

According to oral etymology, Parched Corn Creek was so named as it was typically as dry as parched corn.[3]

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  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Parched Corn Creek
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 2007, Third edition, p. 62, ISBN 0-89933-353-2
  3. ↑ "Christian County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)



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