6 Acres - Upper Mountain Fork River
Smithville, OK 74957

Mountain Fork, also known as the Mountain Fork of the Little River, is a 98-mile-long (158 km)^[1] tributaryof the Little River in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Little andRed rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

[edit]Course

It rises in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, in the Ouachita Mountains, and flows southeastwardly into Polk County, Arkansas, then southwestwardly into McCurtain County, Oklahoma, where it turns southward for the remainder of its course. It joins the Little River in McCurtain County, 10 miles (16 km) southeast of Broken Bow.

In its upper course, the river flows through a portion of the Ouachita National Forest. In McCurtain County, the river is dammed to form Broken Bow Lake.

[edit]See also

• List of Arkansas rivers
• List of Oklahoma rivers

[edit]References

• Columbia Gazetteer of North America
• DeLorme (2004). Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-345-1.
• DeLorme (2003). Oklahoma Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-283-8.
• U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mountain Fork

[edit]External links

• Broken Bow Lake website
• Fly Fishing on the Mountain Fork River