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The Poteau River is a river located in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma extending 141 miles (227 kilometers). [3] It is the only river in Oklahoma that flows north [4] and is the seventh-largest river in the state. The Poteau River is a tributary of the Arkansas River, which is a tributary of the Mississippi River.
The city is located in the valley below Cavanal Hill, ... [13] while the hill rises 1,960 feet (600 m) above the Poteau River on the east side of Poteau. ...
Cavanal Hill (officially Cavanal Mountain), located near Poteau, Oklahoma, is described by a sign at its base as the "'World's Highest Hill' – Elevation: 1,999 feet". [4] The actual summit elevation is 2,385 feet (727 m) above sea level; [ 2 ] the difference in elevation between the summit and the Poteau River 3 miles (5 km) to the north is ...
View of Fourche Maline. Fourche Maline (pronounced foosh-ma-lean) (Bad Fork, French) is a 70.0-mile-long (112.7 km) [1] tributary of the Poteau River in Oklahoma. [a] The headwaters of Fourche Maline are in the Sans Bois Mountains in northwest Latimer County.
LeFlore County is a county along the eastern border of the U.S state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 48,129. [1] Its county seat is Poteau. [2] The county is part of the Fort Smith metropolitan area and the name honors a Choctaw family named LeFlore. [3]
Arkansas River: flows south-southeast, roughly bisecting the state. Major tributaries include Bayou Meto, Cadron Creek, Fourche LaFave River, Petit Jean River, Poteau River, and Illinois River. Mississippi River: flows south and forms much of the state's eastern boundary on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Major tributaries include the Arkansas ...
In the 1840s and 1850s, Sallisaw was the name of one of the 22 Arkansas River steamboat landings between Fort Smith and Fort Gibson. Modern Sallisaw's beginning as a permanent community began in 1887–1888, when Argyle Quesenbury, a white man, and Will Watie Wheeler, a collateral relative of noted Cherokee leader Stand Watie , laid out lots ...
It connected Russellville to other towns in the area, and ran eventually from Ft. Smith to Little Rock, connecting other river valley towns such as Morrilton, Conway, Atkins, London, and facilitating trade among them. Russellville's first newspaper, the Herald, was founded in 1870. By 1876, the town boasted a population of approximately 800 ...