Buffalo Creek is a stream in southwest

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and southeast

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in the United States. It is a tributary of Mountain Fork of the Little River. The stream headwaters arise in

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at approximately four miles northeast of Vandervoort in the southwest corner of the Caney Creek Wilderness.''Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 2nd ed., 2004, p. 46 The stream flows west crossing under

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one mile south of

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. The stream turns to the south then west to enter Oklahoma approximately three miles southeast of the community of Plunketville. The stream continues to the west and turns southwesterly as it passes the community of Buffalo. It continues to the southwest and enters Mountain Fork Little River at the upper (northern) end of

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.''Oklahoma Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1st ed., 1998, p. 67 The confluence is at .

References

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