The Warm Fork Spring River is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...
in
Oregon County,
Missouri
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, and northern
Fulton County,
Arkansas, United States.
The stream begins in western Oregon County at the
confluence
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of
Howell Creek 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 Gr ...
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
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, it has also been known historically as:
Tributaries
* Orchard Creek
See also
* 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 (AR ...
* List of rivers of Arkansas
This article is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Arkansas.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Red River
* Mississippi River
** Red River
*** ...
References
Rivers of Oregon County, Missouri
Rivers of Fulton County, Arkansas
Rivers of Missouri
Rivers of Arkansas
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