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The North Fork River or the North Fork of White River [1] is a 109-mile-long (175 km) [4] tributary of the White River, into which it flows near Norfork, Arkansas.. It rises in the southwest corner of Texas County, at the southeast margin the city of Mountain Grove, and flows generally southwards through the southwest corner of Texas, eastern Douglas and Ozark counties. [5]
Norfork Lake covers 22,000 acres (8,900 ha) with more than 550 miles (890 km) of shoreline. Most of the lake lies within Baxter County, Arkansas, with its Northernmost portion in Ozark County, Missouri. Bass, crappie, walleye, catfish, and bream are all found on the lake with almost all other varieties of fresh water game fish.
Norfork Lake, el. 548 feet (167 Ozark Acres Lake , 36°17′48″N 092°27′37″W / 36.29667°N 92.46028°W / 36.29667; -92.46028 ( Ozark Acres Lake ) , el. 761 feet (232 See also
Highway 5, over the North Fork of the White River (North Fork River 36°12′49″N 92°17′11″W / 36.2136°N 92.2864°W / 36.2136; -92.2864 ( North Fork Norfork
The county is located in a steep section of the Ozark Mountains sometimes known as the Twin Lakes Area because it is bordered by two of Arkansas's largest lakes, Bull Shoals Lake and Norfork Lake. On its southern border are the White River , Norfork Tailwater and the Buffalo National River .
The Norfork Tailwater is the segment of the North Fork River below Norfork Dam in north central Arkansas. The Norfork Tailwater is about 4.8 miles (7.7 km) long and stretches from the dam below Lake Norfork to the White River at Norfork. The community of Salesville lies approximately 1.5 miles west of the dam on Arkansas Highway 177.
Norfork is the home of the Norfork School District. [5] Norfork High School was nationally recognized as a silver medalist and ranked No. 18 in Arkansas and No. 1,863 in the nation in the Best High Schools Report 2012 developed by U.S. News & World Report. [6]
Norfork Lake: Northeast 22,000 8,900 Lake Jack Lee: Southeast 15,000 6,100 ... List of lakes of Little River County, Arkansas; List of lakes of Logan County, Arkansas ...