List of rivers of Arkansas
List of rivers in Arkansas (U.S. state).
For a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas, see List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs Rivers are listed by drainage basin, by size, and alphabetically.
By drainage basin[]
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Red River[]
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![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Ouachita_watershed.png)
- Mississippi River
- Red River
- Black River (LA)
- Tensas River (LA)
- Ouachita River
- Loggy Bayou (LA)
- Flat River (LA)
- Red Chute Bayou (LA)
- Red Chute Bayou (LA)
- Flat River (LA)
- Sulphur River
- Little River
- Black River (LA)
- Red River
Arkansas River[]
- Mississippi River
- Arkansas River
White River[]
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/White_River_AR.png/300px-White_River_AR.png)
- Mississippi River
- White River
St. Francis River[]
- Mississippi River
By size[]
Rivers are measured by their mean annual flow of water in cubic feet per second (cfs). One cubic foot equals .0283 cubic meters.
River | cubic feet per second flow | Location of monitoring station | Notes |
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Mississippi River | 671,500 | near Vicksburg, Mississippi | |
Arkansas River | 47,970 | Murray Dam, near Little Rock | |
White River | 26,760 | near De Valls Bluff | |
Red River | 19,230 | ||
Ouachita River | 11,012 | near Louisiana border | |
St. Francis | 10,000 | below junction with L'Anguille River | estimated from limited data from US Army Corps of Engineers. See notes, below |
Black River | 9,893 | near | |
Little River | 4,621 | near Millwood Lake | no measurement gauge nearby; probably 1,000 – 2,000 cfs higher flow |
Current River | 2,802 | near Doniphan, Missouri | |
Saline River | 2,629 | near Rye | |
Little Red River | 1,777 | near | |
Spring River | 1,432 | near Imboden | |
Buffalo River | 1,379 | near Harriet | |
Cache River | 1,369 | near Cotton Plant | |
Bayou Bartholomew | 1,221 | near Portland | |
Eleven Point River | 1,157 | near Ravenden Springs | |
L'Anguille River | 1,085 | near Palestine | |
Petit Jean River | 828 | near Danville | |
Crooked Creek | 669 | near Yellville | |
Illinois River | 622 | near Siloam Springs | larger downstream in Oklahoma |
Kings River | 582 | near Berryville | |
Mulberry River | 557 | near Mulberry | |
Lee Creek | 531 | near Van Buren | |
Big Piney Creek | 481 | near Dover | |
Smackover Creek | 415 | near Smackover | |
Saline River | 385 | near Lockesburg | |
Illinois Bayou | 379 | near Scottsville | |
Mammoth Spring | 351 | near Mammoth Spring | |
War Eagle Creek | 295 | near Hindsville | |
Antoine Creek | 278 | near Antoine | |
Cadron Creek | 271 | near Guy | |
Caddo River | 266 | near Caddo Gap | upper course, larger downstream |
West Fork Point Remove Creek | 257 | near Hattieville | |
Moro Creek | 256 | near Fordyce | |
Bayou Macon | 240 | near Eudora | |
South Fork of Little Red River | 238 | near Clinton | |
Cossatot River | 187 | near Vandervoort | upper course, larger downstream |
Richland Creek | 179 | near Goshen | |
West Fork White River | 166 | near Fayetteville | |
Little Missouri River | 148 | near Langley | |
James Fork | 147 | near Hackett | |
Osage Creek | 134 | near Elm Springs | |
Richland Creek | 118 | near Witts Spring | |
Bear Creek | 108 | near | |
Rolling Fork River | ? | no measurement gauge, but hundreds of cfs | |
Strawberry River | ? | no measurement gauge, but hundreds of cfs |
Notes and sources: There are two Richland Creeks and two Saline Rivers in Arkansas. Flow of rivers differs substantially between years and seasons. Source for all rivers except St. Francis is the "USGS Water-Data Report – 2012" at http://waterdata.usgs.gov/ar/nwis/current/?type=flow&group_key=basin_cd; The flow of the St. Francis River flow is estimated from US Army Corps of Engineers data at https://archive.today/20130708123645/http://w3.mvm.usace.army.mil/hydraulics/docs/historic/sfdata/sf13284d
Alphabetically[]
- Antoine River
- Arkansas River
- Bayou De View
- Bayou des Arc
- Bayou Macon
- Bennetts River
- Big Piney Creek
- Big Sugar Creek
- Black River
- Boeuf River
- Buffalo National River or Buffalo River
- Cache River
- Caddo River
- Cossatot River
- Current River
- Eleven Point River
- Fourche La Fave River
- Fourche River
- Glazypeau Creek
- Illinois River
- James Fork
- Kings River
- L'Anguille River
- L'Eau Frais Creek
- Lee Creek
- Little Antoine River
- Little Missouri River
- Little Red River
- Little River (Red River tributary) in southwestern Arkansas
- Little River (St. Francis River tributary) in northeastern Arkansas
- Little Strawberry River
- Little Sugar Creek
- Mississippi River
- Mountain Fork
- Mulberry River
- North Fork River
- Ouachita River
- Petit Jean River
- Poteau River
- Red River
- Rolling Fork
- Sager Creek
- St. Francis River
- Saline River (Little River tributary) in southwestern Arkansas
- Saline River (Ouachita River tributary) in southern Arkansas
- Spring River
- Strawberry River
- Sulphur River
- Tanyard Creek
- White River
References[]
- USGS Geographic Names Information Service
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Arkansas (1974)
See also[]
- List of rivers in the United States
- Lists of rivers of the United States by state
- Rivers of Arkansas
- Lists of landforms of Arkansas