Cedar Run (Missouri)

The Flat River is a stream in St. Francois County, Missouri. It is a tributary of the Big River. The stream source is at: 37°46′14″N 90°35′20″W and the confluence is at: 37°53′31″N 90°29′59″W.Flat River was so named on account of its flat banks. A variant name was "River la Platte".

The Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center (ERDCC) is a 2,684-bed prison located in a detached eastern section of Bonne Terre, Missouri. It is home to adult males who may have substance abuse issues or are mentally disabled.The ERDCC serves as the point of admission for male offenders committed by the courts in eastern Missouri to the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC), responsible for their classification through medical and mental tests. It contains Missouri's lethal injection execution chamber. Programs at this facility include restorative justice, Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous, Impact on Crime, Seven points of highly successful people, and Storylink. It operates a cooked and chilled food facility, a unit that prepares and transports all regular and special diet meals to the Potosi Correctional Center, Farmington Correctional Center and Missouri Eastern Correctional Centers and the St. Louis Community Release Center. NPR reported an outbreak of COVID-19 cases at the facility in August 2021. Universal testing for COVID-19 had not occurred since August 2020 even though ERDCC is an intake facility for prisoners brought in from county jails which do not have the same testing, quarantine and isolation protocols as the DOC. Severe staffing shortage caused inmates to be held on extended and frequent lockdowns, unable to leave their cells, not even for medical appointments.

North County High School is a high school in the North County School District, St. Francois County, Missouri. It is located in Bonne Terre, Missouri, and is the only high school in the district. NFL linebacker Will Compton graduated from NCHS in 2008. YouTube Finance star "Pocket Watching with JT" Jayson Thornton graduated in 2002.

Koen Creek is a stream in St. Francois County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Flat River. The stream headwaters arise at 37°49′27″N 90°26′24″W and it flows generally northwest to its confluence with Flat River at 37°52′10″N 90°30′06″W on the east edge of Desloge adjacent to US Route 67.Koen Creek has the name of the local Koen family.

Dry Branch is a stream in St. Francois County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Terre Bleue Creek. Dry Branch was named for the fact it often runs dry.

Salem Creek is a stream in St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Terre Bleue Creek.Salem Creek takes its name from a nearby Methodist church of the same name.

Desloge ( də-LOHZH) is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States. The population was 5,054 as of the 2010 census.

Pike Run is a stream in St. Francois County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of Terre Bleue Creek just upstream of that stream's confluence with Big River.The stream headwaters arise just south of Missouri Route Y about 1.5 miles southeast of Halifax and US Route 67. The stream flows southwest passing just east of St. Francois State Park and on to its confluence with Terre Bleue Creek about two miles west of the community of Hazel Run. The source area is at 37°59′56″N 90°28′37″W and the confluence is at 37°56′46″N 90°30′03″W.Pike Run was so named on account of its stock of pike fish.

Perry Township is an inactive township in St. Francois County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.Perry Township was erected in 1821, taking its name from Oliver Hazard Perry (1785–1819), American naval officer.

Terre Bleue Creek is a stream in St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties of eastern Missouri. It is a tributary of the Big River. Terre Bleue Creek was so named on account of the color of the dirt on its course, terre bleue being a name meaning "blue earth" in French.

Hazel Run is a stream in northeastern St. Francois County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Terre Bleue Creek. The stream headwaters arise northeast of the community of Hazel Run and it flows west passing about one-half mile north of Hazel Run to its confluence with Terre Bleue Creek about three quarters of a mile northeast of that stream's confluence with Big River.The source area is at 37°57′03″N 90°26′41″W and the confluence is at 37°56′55″N 90°29′35″W.Hazel Run was so named on account of hazel trees near its course.

Bonne Terre ( bon-TAIR) is a city in St. Francois County, Missouri, United States with a population of 6,864 at the 2010 census. Situated in the Southeast Missouri Lead District, lead mining shaped the history and character of the area from the earliest French settlers in the 1720s until today, even though Bonne Terre Mine established by St. Joseph lead mining company in 1864 closed in 1962. Mine tailing piles eroded, and contaminated the area as dust, posing residential hazards or were washed into the Big River. Only in 1992, the Bonne Terre Mine Tailings Site was listed as a Superfund Site; as of 2022 remediation is still ongoing. The Bonne Terre Depot from 1909, the St. Joe Lead Company Administration Building and the Bonne Terre Mine, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The latter is spring water filled and became a scuba diving attraction. Bonne Terre is also home to the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center, a 3000 bed prison of adult males who may have substance abuse issues or are mentally disabled, where Missouri has conducted all of its executions since April 2005.