Buckeye Creek (Apple Creek tributary)

Buckeye Creek is a stream in northern Cape Girardeau County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Apple Creek.

The stream headwaters arise just west of I-55 and south of Missouri Route E approximately two miles east of Oak Ridge (at ) at an elevation of 600 feet.Jackson, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1966 The stream flows north to northeast passing under I-55 and U.S. Route 61 west of Shawneetown. Its confluence with Apple Creek is approximately two miles east of Old Appleton (at ) at an elevation of 361 feet.Oak Ridge, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1947 (1978 rev.)

Buckeye Creek was named for the buckeye trees lining its course.

See also List of rivers of Missouri

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