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The Warm Fork Spring River is a stream in
Oregon County Oregon County is a county located in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,635. Its county seat is Alton. The county was officially organized on February 14, 1845, and was named for ...
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Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ...
and northern
Fulton County Fulton County is the name of eight counties in the United States of America. Most are named for Robert Fulton, inventor of the first practical steamboat: *Fulton County, Arkansas, named after Governor William Savin Fulton *Fulton County, Georgia *F ...
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Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the ...
. The stream begins in western Oregon County at the
confluence In geography, a confluence (also: ''conflux'') occurs where two or more flowing bodies of water join to form a single channel. A confluence can occur in several configurations: at the point where a tributary joins a larger river ( main stem); ...
of
Howell Creek Howell Creek is a stream in Howell and Oregon counties of southern Missouri. The stream is a tributary to the Warm Fork Spring River. The stream headwaters arise in Howell County within the city of West Plains at the confluence of the Nor ...
and Elk Creek and the stream becomes the Spring River at its confluence with the cold springwaters of
Mammoth Spring Mammoth Spring is a large, first magnitude karst spring that arises in the Ozark Plateau within the state of Arkansas. It is the largest spring in Arkansas and the third-largest spring within the Ozark Plateau region behind Big Spring and Gree ...
in northern Fulton County. The stream was named due to the temperature difference between its waters and the cold springwaters entering from Mammoth Spring.Oregon County Place Names, 1928–1945, The State Historical Society of Missouri
/ref> This is the only stream of this name in the United States.


Variant names

According to the
Geographic Names Information System The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database of name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features throughout the United States and its territories, Antarctica, and the associated states of ...
, it has also been known historically as: *Spring River


See also

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List of rivers of Missouri List of rivers in Missouri ( U.S. state). By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Mississippi River Arkansas River *Mississippi River **Arkansas River (A ...
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List of rivers of Arkansas List of rivers in Arkansas (U.S. state). For a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas, see List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs Rivers are listed by drainage basin, by size, and alphabetically. By drainage basin This list is arranged by drainage ...


References

Rivers of Oregon County, Missouri Rivers of Fulton County, Arkansas Rivers of Missouri Rivers of Arkansas {{Arkansas-river-stub