White Branch, MO

White Branch is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Benton County, Missouri, United States. White Branch is southwest of the center of the county, on the south side of the Osage River where it is joined from the south by White Branch, a tributary. To the north, across the Osage, is Warsaw, the Benton county seat. A newcomer can read White Branch through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, White Branch comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. U.S. Route 65 forms the western edge of the CDP, leading north through Warsaw 35 miles to Sedalia and south 77 miles to Springfield. White Branch was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.