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The Missouri water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
This map of United States water resource subregion hydrologic units updated boundaries to include the ocean as well as the portions of the basins that cross international borders For the use of hydrologists, ecologists, and water-resource managers in the study of surface water flows in the United States, the United States Geological Survey ...
The James River is a 130-mile-long (210 km) [4] river in southern Missouri. It flows from northeast Webster County until it is impounded into Table Rock Lake. It is part of the White River watershed. The river forms Lake Springfield and supplies drinking water for the city of Springfield.
Huzzah Creek (locally / ˈ h uː z ɑː /) is a 35.8-mile-long (57.6 km) [3] clear-flowing stream in the southern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. [4] According to the information in the Ramsay Place Names File at the University of Missouri, the creek's name "is evidently derived from" Huzzaus, one of the early French versions of the name of the Osage people.
The USGS regional organization [9] aligns with the U.S. Department of the Interior Unified Interior Regions: [10] Region 1: North Atlantic-Appalachian; Region 2: South Atlantic-Gulf; Region 3: Great Lakes; Region 4: Mississippi Basin; Region 5: Missouri Basin; Region 6: Arkansas-Rio Grande-Texas-Gulf; Region 7: Upper Colorado Basin; Region 8 ...
The Gasconade River is about 280 miles (450 km) long [1] and is located in central and south-central Missouri. [2] [3]The Gasconade River begins in the Ozarks southwest of Hartville in Wright County and flows generally north-northeastwardly through Wright, Laclede, Pulaski, Phelps, Maries, Osage and Gasconade counties, through portions of the Mark Twain National Forest.
A failure to comply with the water conservation mandate could have a “tremendous impact” on the city’s water supply, officials warned. Ice jams, record low levels on Missouri River lead ...
The Current River is roughly 184 miles (296 km) long and drains about 2,641 square miles (6,840 km 2) [4] of land mostly in Missouri and a small portion of land in northeastern Arkansas. The headwaters of the Current River are nearly 900 feet (270 m) above sea level, while the mouth of the river lies around 280 feet (85 m) [ 4 ] above sea level.