Eleven Point River
Template:Geobox The Eleven Point River is a 138-mile-long (222 km)[1] river in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, United States. It originates near Willow Springs, Missouri. It more than doubles in flow when Greer Spring Branch runs into it, adding over 200 million US gallons (760,000 m3) of water per day to the river. The name derives from the Mississippi Valley French word pointe, which is a wooded point of land marking a river bend. Voyageurs marked distance by counting these points of land or river bends.[2] The river flows into the Spring River southwest of Pocahontas near the small town of Black Rock.
In 1968 a 44.4-mile (71.5 km) stretch was named the Eleven Point National Wild and Scenic River, one of the original eight rivers chosen to be part of the United States National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 9, 2011
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Eleven Point River
External links
- Eleven Point River Resource Page
- National Park Service
- Eleven Point River Conservancy
- Friends of the Eleven Point River
36°9′3″N 91°4′57″W / 36.15083°N 91.08250°W
- Rivers of Missouri
- Rivers of Arkansas
- Landforms of the Ozarks
- Tributaries of the White River (Arkansas)
- Landforms of Randolph County, Arkansas
- Landforms of Howell County, Missouri
- Landforms of Oregon County, Missouri
- Missouri river stubs
- Ozark region, Missouri geography stubs
- Southern United States river stubs
- Arkansas geography stubs