List of rivers of Arkansas


List of rivers in Arkansas.
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

Rivers are measured by their mean annual flow of water in cubic feet per second. One cubic foot equals.0283 cubic meters.
Rivercubic feet per second flowLocation of monitoring stationNotes
Mississippi River671,500near Vicksburg, Mississippi
Arkansas River47,970Murray Dam, near Little Rock
White River26,760near De Valls Bluff
Red River19,230near Spring Bank
Ouachita River11,012near Louisiana border
St. Francis10,000below junction with L'Anguille Riverestimated from limited data from US Army Corps of Engineers. See notes, below
Black River9,893near Elgin Ferry
Little River4,621near Millwood Lakeno measurement gauge nearby; probably 1,000 – 2,000 cfs higher flow
Current River2,802near Doniphan, Missouri
Saline River2,629near Rye
Little Red River1,777near Dewey
Spring River1,432near Imboden
Buffalo River1,379near Harriet
Cache River1,369near Cotton Plant
Bayou Bartholomew1,221near Portland
Eleven Point River1,157near Ravenden Springs
L'Anguille River1,085near Palestine
Petit Jean River828near Danville
Crooked Creek669near Yellville
Illinois River622near Siloam Springslarger downstream in Oklahoma
Kings River582near Berryville
Mulberry River557near Mulberry
Lee Creek531near Van Buren
Big Piney Creek481near Dover
Smackover Creek415near Smackover
Saline River385near Lockesburg
Illinois Bayou379near Scottsville
Mammoth Spring351near Mammoth Spring
War Eagle Creek295near Hindsville
Antoine Creek278near Antoine
Cadron Creek271near Guy
Caddo River266near Caddo Gapupper course, larger downstream
West Fork Point Remove Creek257near Hattieville
Moro Creek256near Fordyce
Bayou Macon240near Eudora
South Fork of Little Red River238near Clinton
Cossatot River187near Vandervoortupper course, larger downstream
Richland Creek179near Goshen
West Fork White River166near Fayetteville
Little Missouri River148near Langley
James Fork147near Hackett
Osage Creek134near Elm Springs
Richland Creek118near Witts Spring
Bear Creek108near 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.is/20130708123645/http://w3.mvm.usace.army.mil/hydraulics/docs/historic/sfdata/sf13284d

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