Fox River is a stream in Davis, and Van Buren counties of Iowa, and Clark County of Missouri.[1] 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.[1]

Fox River was named after the Meskwaki or Fox people.[2]

At Wayland, Missouri, the river has an average discharge of 283 cubic feet per second.[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 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".



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