Eleven Point River

The Eleven Point River is in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, United States. It originates near Willow Springs, Missouri. It more than doubles in flow when Greer Spring Branch runs into it, adding over 200 million gallons of water per day to the river. The name derives from the Mississippi Valley French word pointe, which is a wooded point of land marking a river bend. Voyageurs marked distance by counting these points of land or river bends. The river flows into the Black River near Pocahontas.

In 1968 a 44.4-mile stretch of the Eleven Point was one of the original eight rivers chosen to be part of the United States National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

See also

• List of Missouri rivers
• Irish Wilderness
• List of Arkansas rivers

References

External links

• Eleven Point River Resource Page
• National Park Service
• Eleven Point River Conservancy