Crane Creek

Crane Creek may refer to:

Crane Creek (Straight River)

Crane Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is a tributary of the Straight River.

Crane Creek was named for the cranes which once frequented this waterway.

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Crane Creek (Missouri)

Crane Creek is a 23.2-mile-long (37.3 km) stream that flows through the town of Crane, Missouri and is notable for its trout fishery. The creek, a tributary of the James River and part of the White River drainage basin, is a part of the Missouri Department of Conservation's trout management program and is classified as a Blue Ribbon Trout Area. It is one of five wild trout management areas in the state that receive no supplemental stocking of hatchery-raised trout. Even more impressively, it is reputed to contain one of only three remaining populations of the pure-strain McCloud River rainbow trout — even the McCloud River no longer has this strain of fish in residence - though this claim is largely anecdotal and is to this point been unproven by scientific analysis.

Despite folklore that Crane Creek was stocked only once by railroad workers in the late nineteenth century, and that this explains the "purity" of the fish found there, in fact the records of the National Fish Commission show that the creek was repeatedly stocked between approximately 1890 and 1914 with rainbow trout from the nearby Neosho National Fish Hatchery.