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The Current River forms in the southeastern portion of the Ozarks of Missouri and becomes a 7th order stream [4] as it flows southeasterly out of the Ozarks into northeastern Arkansas where it becomes a tributary of the Black River, which is a tributary of the White River, a tributary of the Mississippi River.
NPS map of the Riverways Rocky Falls on Rocky Creek, a tributary of the Current River. The Ozark National Scenic Riverways is a recreational unit of the National Park Service in the Ozarks of southern Missouri in the U.S. The park was created by an Act of Congress in 1964 to protect the Current and Jacks Fork rivers, and it was formally ...
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, and Oklahoma, as well as a small area in the southeastern corner of Kansas. [1]
The Lake of the Ozarks is located on the Ozark Plateau, with Bagnell Dam lying at an elevation of 659 feet (201 m) above sea level. [6] [17] It lies in central Missouri on the Salem Plateau of the Ozarks. [18] The lake extends across four Missouri counties, from Benton County in the west through Camden and Morgan Counties to Miller County in ...
Map of Missouri conservation areas with the Ozark region highlighted. The Ozark administrative region of the Missouri Department of Conservation encompasses Carter, Dent, Douglas, Howell, Oregon, Ozark, Phelps, Pulaski, Ripley, Shannon, Texas, and Wright counties. The regional conservation office is in West Plains.
The Niangua River / n aɪ ˈ æ ŋ ɡ w ə / is a 125-mile-long (201 km) [3] tributary of the Osage River in the Ozarks region of southern and central Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Niangua River has the name of Niangua (or Nehemgar), an Indian tribal leader ...
The Buffalo National River, as it flows through The Ozarks to the White River, is a popular tourist attraction. It was designated the first national river in 1972 after years of conservation efforts in opposition to a United States Army Corps of Engineers plan to dam the river.
These mark where that river cuts the Ozark ridge. Across the Mississippi River, this ridge is continued by the Shawnee Hills in Illinois. The sandstone member of the Ordovician Roubidoux Formation outcrops along many bluffs of the southern Ozarks. The elevations of the crests in Missouri vary from 1,100 to 1,700 ft (520 m).