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Fox River (Mississippi River Tributary)

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

The stream headwaters are at 40°45′13″N 92°43′26″W / 40.75361°N 92.72389°W / 40.75361; -92.72389 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°17′05″N 91°29′39″W / 40.28472°N 91.49417°W / 40.28472; -91.49417.

The Fox River was named after the Meskwaki or Fox people.

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

Tributaries

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fox River (Mississippi River tributary)
  2. ^ "Clark County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "USGS Surface Water data for Missouri: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".