Fox River (Mississippi River tributary) explained

The Fox River is a stream in Davis, andVan Buren counties of Iowa, and Clark County of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Mississippi River.

The stream headwaters are at 40.7536°N -92.7239°W near Drakesville and Bloomfield, Iowa. It crosses the Iowa-Missouri border near Mt Sterling, and its confluence with the Mississippi is about six miles south of the confluence of the Des Moines River, near Alexandria at 40.2847°N -91.4942°W.

The Fox River was named after the Meskwaki or Fox people.[1]

At Wayland, Missouri, the river has an average discharge of 283 cubic feet per second.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Clark County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) . The State Historical Society of Missouri . 18 September 2016 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070417/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_clark.html . 24 June 2016 .
  2. Web site: USGS Surface Water data for Missouri: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics.