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The Osage River is a 276-mile-long (444 km) [2] tributary of the Missouri River in central Missouri in the United States. The eighth-largest river in the state, it drains a mostly rural area of 15,300 square miles (40,000 km 2 ).
The Osage Plains and Flint Hills were dominated historically by tallgrass prairie with scattered groves of blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica) in the uplands and along drainages. A variety of wetland types, including wet prairie, marshes , and northern floodplain forests occurred along larger rivers.
The physiographic regions of the contiguous United States comprise 8 divisions, 25 provinces, and 85 sections. [1] The system dates to Nevin Fenneman's report Physiographic Divisions of the United States, published in 1916. [2] [3] The map was updated and republished by the Association of American Geographers in 1928. [4]
The Dissected Till Plains portion of the northern plains region lies in the portion of the state north of the Missouri River, while the Osage plains portion extends into the southwestern portion of the state bordering the Ozark Plateau. Thus the northern plains covers an area slightly more than a third of the state.
Missouri River. Osage River (MO) Little Osage River. Marmaton River; Marais des Cygnes River; Blue River. Brush Creek; Kansas River. Stranger Creek; Wakarusa River
North Dry Sac River; South Dry Sac River; Little Osage River. Marmaton River. Green River; Marais des Cygnes River; Moreau River; Lamine River. Blackwater River 55 miles (89 km) Little Chariton River. East Fork Little Chariton River 100 miles (160 km) Walnut Creek; Silver Creek. Turner Fork; Middle Fork Little Chariton River 63 miles (101 km ...
High Plains: Plains Border: Arctic Coastal Plain: Colorado Piedmont: Raton section Pecos Valley: Edwards Plateau: Central Texas section Central Lowland Dissected Till Plains: Eastern Lake section Osage Plains: Till Plains Western Lake section Wisconsin Driftless section Mackenzie Delta: Mackenzie River: Yukon Coastal Plain Manitoba Lowlands ...
The Marais des Cygnes River (/ ˌ m ɛər d ə ˈ z iː n,-ˈ s iː n, ˈ m ɛər d ə z iː n / MAIR de ZEEN, - zeen, - SEEN, [3] [4] French: [maʁɛ de siɲ]) is a principal tributary of the Osage River, about 217 miles (349 km) long, [5] in eastern Kansas and western Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it ...