Elk River (Oklahoma)

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Elk River
Origin Confluence of Big Sugar Creek and Little Sugar Creek near Pineville, Missouri
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Mouth Confluence with the Neosho River in Delaware County, Oklahoma
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Progression Elk River → Neosho → Arkansas → Mississippi → Gulf of Mexico
Length 35 mi (56 km)
Source elevation 860 ft (260 m)
Mouth elevation 741 ft (226 m)
GNIS ID 1092538

The Elk River is a 35.2-mile-long (56.6 km)[1] tributary of the Neosho River in southwestern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma in the United States.[2] Its tributaries also drain a small portion of northwestern Arkansas. Via the Neosho and Arkansas rivers, the Elk is part of the Mississippi River watershed.

Course

The Elk is formed by the confluence of Big Sugar Creek and Little Sugar Creek at Pineville, Missouri, and flows generally westward through McDonald County, Missouri, past the town of Noel, into Delaware County, Oklahoma, where it meets the Neosho River. Most of the river's course in Oklahoma is part of the Grand Lake o' the Cherokees, an impoundment formed by Pensacola Dam on the Neosho.

See also

References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 31, 2011
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