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Osage River. 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 watershed includes an area of east-central Kansas and a large portion of west-central and central ...
1,086 ft (331 m) [1] Osage State Fishing Lake is a lake located in northern Osage County, Kansas. It is a mile east of U.S. Route 75. Scranton, Kansas, is to the lake's northwest and Overbrook, Kansas, is to the northeast. Osage Lake is a freshwater man-made lake, constructed in 1955. It has a surface area of 140 acres (57 ha), The parkland in ...
History. Construction on the dam started in 1929 and was completed in 1931. The resulting reservoir, the Lake of the Ozarks, has a surface area of 55,000 acres (22,000 ha), over 1,150 miles (1,850 km) of shoreline, and stretches 94 miles (151 km) from end to end. At the time of construction, it was the largest man-made lake in United States and ...
Osage Beach was founded in 1886 as Zebra before being renamed as Osage Beach in 1935. Osage Beach was incorporated in 1959. [4] [5]When the Lake of the Ozarks was created, it caused the flooding of much of Zebra.
Lake of the Ozarks is a reservoir created by impounding the Osage River in the northern part of the Ozarks in central Missouri. Parts of three smaller tributaries to the Osage are included in the impoundment: the Niangua River, Grandglaize Creek, and Gravois Creek. The lake has a surface area of 54,000 acres (220 km 2) and 1,150 miles (1,850 km ...
A rural Ozarks scene. Phelps County, Missouri The Saint Francois Mountains, viewed here from Knob Lick Mountain, are the exposed geologic core of the Ozarks.. The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and only ~55 square miles in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
Harry S Truman Reservoir. 706 feet (215 m) above sea level. [2] The Harry S Truman Reservoir, also known as Truman Lake, is located in the state of Missouri, United States. It is located between Clinton and Warsaw, on the Osage River and extends south to Osceola. The dam is located in Benton County, but the reservoir also extends into parts of ...
Location: Camden and Miller counties, Missouri, United States: Nearest city: Osage Beach, Missouri: Coordinates: 1]: Area: 17,626.55 acres (71.3321 km 2) [2]: Elevation: 771 ft (235.0 m) [1]: Designation: Missouri state park: Established: 1946 [3]: Visitors: 1,347,337 (in 2022) [4]: Administrator: Missouri Department of Natural Resources: Website: Lake of the Ozarks State Park: Lake of the ...