Eleven Point River

Template:Short description Template:Use American English Template:Infobox river The Eleven Point River is a Template:Convert<ref>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed March 9, 2011</ref> river in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas, United States.

Eleven Point

While the river originates near Willow Springs, Missouri, it is generally a losing stream upstream of the confluence with the Middle Fork of the Eleven Point near Thomasville, Missouri.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It more than doubles in flow when Greer Spring Branch runs into it, adding over Template:Convert 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.<ref>Template:GNIS</ref> The river flows into the Spring River southwest of Pocahontas near the small town of Black Rock.

In 1968 a Template:Convert stretch was named the Eleven Point National Wild and Scenic River, one of the original eight rivers chosen to be part of the United States National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Pine Hollow

Pine Hollow is a valley in Oregon County in the U.S. state of Missouri.<ref>Template:GNIS</ref> Pine Hollow was so named for the pine trees that grow in the valley.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

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

External links

• Eleven Point River Resource Page
• National Park Service
• Eleven Point River Conservancy
• Friends of the Eleven Point River