Flat Creek, Missouri

Flat Creek, Missouri is a township in Barry County in southwestern Missouri, USA. It is located about 34 miles southwest of Springfield and about 14.5 linear miles east-northeast of Cassville. There is also a community named Flat Creek.

The actor Don Johnson was born there in 1949 but moved away in 1955.

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Coordinates: 36°40′42″N 93°51′43″W / 36.6783998°N 93.8618663°W / 36.6783998; -93.8618663

Flat Creek

Flat Creek can refer to:

Flat Creek (Lake Lanier)

Flat Creek is a stream in Georgia, and is a tributary of the Chattahoochee River in Lake Lanier. The creek is approximately 5.09 miles (8.19 km) long.

Course

Flat Creek rises in Gainesville, Georgia in Hall County, just north of Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport, and immediately west of State Route 60. The creek heads in a westerly direction, and crosses State Route 13/State Route 53 within a few hundred yards, then curves to the southwest, paralleling State Route 369 to its north. Just east of McEver Road, Flat Creek turns to the south, then back to the west to cross McEver Road, and flows into Lake Lanier in the Flat Creek arm of the lake, which is separated from the Chattahoochee River arm by a peninsula which is bisected by State Route 369, and which is accessed by Browns Bridge coming from Forsyth County.

Sub-watershed details

The creek watershed and associated waters is designated by the United States Geological Survey as sub-watershed HUC 031300010802, is named the Flat Creek sub-watershed, and drains an area of approximately 21 square miles southwest of Gainesville. Flat Creek drains the northern portion of this watershed, while the southern portion around the community of Oakwood is drained by Balus Creek, which flows into Lake Lanier south the the Flat Creek arm of the lake.

Flat Creek (Virginia)

Flat Creek is a 34.0-mile-long (54.7 km) tributary of the Appomattox River in the U.S. state of Virginia. It rises just east of the town of Burkeville in Nottoway County and flows north into Amelia County, then northeast to join the Appomattox River 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Petersburg.

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Coordinates: 37°23′31″N 77°52′23″W / 37.39182°N 77.87305°W / 37.39182; -77.87305

Missouri

Missouri (see pronunciations) is a state located in the Midwestern United States. It is the 21st most extensive, and the 18th most populous of the fifty states. The state comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis.

As defined by the 2010 US census, the four largest urban areas in order of population are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. The mean center of the United States population at the 2010 census was in the town of Plato in Texas County. The state's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of this territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.

Missouri's geography is highly varied. The northern part of the state lies in dissected till plains and the southern portion lies in the Ozark Mountains (a dissected plateau), with the Missouri River dividing the regions. The state lies at the intersection of the three greatest rivers of the United States, with the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers near St. Louis, and the confluence of the Ohio River with the Mississippi north of the Bootheel. The starting points for the Pony Express, Santa Fe Trail, and Oregon Trail were all located in Missouri as well.

Missouri (band)

Missouri is a rock band from Kansas City, Missouri, known primarily for the song "Movin' On".

History

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ron West was part of a well-remembered Kansas City band, The Chesmann, with his two brothers Gary and Steve. Heavily inspired by British invasion groups, the band played both live covers and recorded original studio material. Gary West was also a member of the band Shooting Star, which scored several modest AOR hits in the late 1970 and early 1980s.

Led by Ron West, the band's self-titled first album was released in 1977 on a label called Panama Records. Even though Panama was an independent label, the band garnered substantial airplay on American FM AOR radio stations, specifically with the track "Movin On". Missouri's first gig was opening for Firefall in Emporia, Kansas. Missouri toured nationally with many major label acts such as Ted Nugent, Golden Earring, among many others.

A second album, "Welcome Two Missouri", was released on the larger and international Polydor label in 1979, including a re-recorded version of "Movin On" minus the original intro. By this time two of the original line up had dropped out. No further recordings except a repackaging of recordings from the previous albums called the best of Missouri. Missouri songs are available on iTunes.

Missouri wine

Missouri Wine refers to wine made from grapes grown in the U.S. state of Missouri. German immigrants in the early-to-mid-19th century, founded the wine industry in Missouri, resulting in its wine corridor being called the Missouri "Rhineland". Later Italian immigrants also entered wine production. In the mid-1880s, more wine was produced by volume in Missouri than in any other state. Before Prohibition, Missouri was the second-largest wine-producing state in the nation. Missouri had the first area recognized as a federally designated American Viticultural Area with the Augusta AVA acknowledged on June 20, 1980. There are now four AVAs in Missouri. In 2009 there were 92 wineries operating in the state of Missouri.

History

Some Native American tribes cultivated local varieties of grapes. These species were developed further by later German Americans and Italian Americans.

German immigrants to the Missouri River valley established vineyards and wineries on both sides of the river. Hermann, Missouri, settled by Germans in 1837, had ideal conditions to grow grapes for wine. By 1848 winemakers there produced 10,000 US gallons (37,900 l) per year, expanding to 100,000 US gallons (378,500 l) per year by 1856. Overall, the state produced 2,000,000 US gallons (7,570,800 l) per year by the 1880s, the most of any state in the nation.Stone Hill Winery in Hermann became the second largest in the nation (and the third largest in the world), shipping a million barrels of wine by the turn of the 20th century. Its wines won awards at world fairs in Vienna in 1873 and Philadelphia in 1876.