Open country near Stockton Lake
East 1450 Road sits in Jefferson Township, Cedar County, Missouri, about 1.1 miles from Stockton Lake, formed in 1969 when the Army Corps of Engineers dammed the Sac River. Before the dam, the Sac ran free through this stretch of country, which remains flat farmland with the lake as its main draw.
A dam turned the Sac River into a lake
On the quiet stretch of Kreeger Boulevard and Walnut Lane, there's little to mark. The nearest real story is the lake itself, about 1.1 miles east, where the Army Corps of Engineers finished Stockton Lake Dam in 1969. The dam backed up the Sac River and put a flowing stream under flat water for good.
That same lake, about 3.3 miles southwest, is now called Stockton Lake. It spreads across three counties, Cedar, Dade and Polk, and draws boaters and anglers from across southwest Missouri. Nine miles south of the city of Stockton, the shoreline becomes Stockton State Park, 2,176 acres of public land on the water's edge.
The ground right here stays plain farm country. The lake nearby is the reason anyone comes this way at all.
East 1450 Road still runs past open farmland, with Stockton Lake drawing the only traffic nearby.
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