Bracken Creek is a small, mostly intermittent stream in Webster County, Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the Osage Fork Gasconade River.
The stream source is at: 37°19′43″N 92°45′33″W / 37.32861°N 92.75917°W and the confluence is at 37°22′26″N 92°47′23″W / 37.37389°N 92.78972°W. [1] The stream headwaters are northeast of Bracken and it flows north then northwest roughly parallel to Missouri Route JJ to its confluence with Osage Fork south of Route M and east-southeast of Niangua. [2]
Bracken Creek has the name of the local Bracken family. The Brackens settled near the creek in about 1850. [3]