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Elk Creek, Missouri
Unincorporated community
Country	United States
State	Missouri
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)

Elk Creek is an unincorporated community in Texas County, Missouri, United States. It is about nine miles south of Houston.

A post office called Elk Creek has been in operation since 1860. The community was so named on account of the elk once abundant in the area.

Municipalities and communities of Texas County, Missouri, United States

County seat: Houston

Cities	Cabool Houston Licking Mountain Grove‡ Summersville‡

Villages	Plato Raymondville

Townships	Boone Burdine Carroll Cass Clinton Current Date Jackson Lynch Morris Ozark Pierce Piney Roubidoux Sargent Sherrill Upton

Unincorporated communities	Alice Arroll Ashley Creek Bado Bendavis Big Creek Bucyrus Clara Clear Springs Dent Dunn Dykes Elk Creek Ellis Prairie Ellsworth Eunice Evening Shade Fowler Guild Hartshorn Huggins Kimble Kinderpost Ladd Lundy Mahan Maples Mitchells Corner Nile Oscar Pleasant Ridge Prescott Roby Samoa Sargent Sherrill Simmons Solo Stultz Success Tyrone Upton Vada Varvol Venable Yukon

Ghost towns	Edanville Gravel Point Grogan Hattie Hazleton Hurst Louisa Nagle Plum Valley Raftville Roubidoux Turley

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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