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

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This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.

Red River

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Red River Drainage Basin
Ouachita Drainage Basin

Arkansas River

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White River

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White River Drainage Basin

St. Francis River

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By size

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Rivers are measured by their mean annual flow of water in cubic feet per second (cuft/s). 1 cubic foot per second euqals 0.028 m3/s.

River Flow Location of monitoring station Notes
cu ft/s m3/s
Mississippi River 671,500 19,010 near Vicksburg, Mississippi
Arkansas River 47,970 1,358 Murray Dam, near Little Rock
White River 26,760 758 near De Valls Bluff
Red River 19,230 545 near Spring Bank
Ouachita River 11,012 311.8 near Louisiana border
St. Francis 10,000 280 below junction with L'Anguille River estimated from limited data from US Army Corps of Engineers. See notes, below
Black River 9,893 280.1 near Elgin Ferry
Little River 4,621 130.9 near Millwood Lake no measurement gauge nearby; probably 1,000–2,000 cu ft/s (28–57 m3/s) higher flow
Current River 2,802 79.3 near Doniphan, Missouri
Saline River 2,629 74.4 near Rye
Little Red River 1,777 50.3 near Dewey
Spring River 1,432 40.5 near Imboden
Buffalo River 1,379 39.0 near Harriet
Cache River 1,369 38.8 near Cotton Plant
Bayou Bartholomew 1,221 34.6 near Portland
Eleven Point River 1,157 32.8 near Ravenden Springs
L'Anguille River 1,085 30.7 near Palestine
Petit Jean River 828 23.4 near Danville
Crooked Creek 669 18.9 near Yellville
Illinois River 622 17.6 near Siloam Springs larger downstream in Oklahoma
Kings River 582 16.5 near Berryville
Mulberry River 557 15.8 near Mulberry
Lee Creek 531 15.0 near Van Buren
Big Piney Creek 481 13.6 near Dover
Smackover Creek 415 11.8 near Smackover
Saline River 385 10.9 near Lockesburg
Illinois Bayou 379 10.7 near Scottsville
Mammoth Spring 351 9.9 near Mammoth Spring
War Eagle Creek 295 8.4 near Hindsville
Antoine Creek 278 7.9 near Antoine
Cadron Creek 271 7.7 near Guy
Caddo River 266 7.5 near Caddo Gap upper course, larger downstream
West Fork Point Remove Creek 257 7.3 near Hattieville
Moro Creek 256 7.2 near Fordyce
Bayou Macon 240 6.8 near Eudora
South Fork of Little Red River 238 6.7 near Clinton
Cossatot River 187 5.3 near Vandervoort upper course, larger downstream
Richland Creek 179 5.1 near Goshen
West Fork White River 166 4.7 near Fayetteville
Little Missouri River 148 4.2 near Langley
James Fork 147 4.2 near Hackett
Osage Creek 134 3.8 near Elm Springs
Richland Creek 118 3.3 near Witts Spring
Bear Creek 108 3.1 near Silver Hill
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

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References

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See also

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