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Caney Creek (New River Tributary)
Caney Creek may refer to: * Caney Creek (Arkansas) in the Ouachita National Forest **Caney Creek Wilderness, Arkansas * Caney Creek (Kentucky) **Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a city along the creek known to its inhabitants as "Caney Creek" * Caney Creek (Pine Creek tributary) in Ozark County, Missouri * Caney Creek (Scott County, Missouri) *Caney Creek (Oklahoma) Caney Creek is a watercourse in Adair County and Cherokee County in Oklahoma. It forms just southeast of Stilwell and travels on an arc generally northwest, west, and then southwest before emptying into Tenkiller Ferry Lake on the Illinois Riv ..., located in Adair and Cherokee counties in Oklahoma * Caney Creek (Matagorda Bay) in Texas * Caney Creek (San Jacinto River tributary) in Texas {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caney Creek (Arkansas)
Caney Creek may refer to: * Caney Creek (Arkansas) in the Ouachita National Forest **Caney Creek Wilderness, Arkansas * Caney Creek (Kentucky) **Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a city along the creek known to its inhabitants as "Caney Creek" * Caney Creek (Pine Creek tributary) in Ozark County, Missouri * Caney Creek (Scott County, Missouri) *Caney Creek (Oklahoma) Caney Creek is a watercourse in Adair County and Cherokee County in Oklahoma. It forms just southeast of Stilwell and travels on an arc generally northwest, west, and then southwest before emptying into Tenkiller Ferry Lake on the Illinois Riv ..., located in Adair and Cherokee counties in Oklahoma * Caney Creek (Matagorda Bay) in Texas * Caney Creek (San Jacinto River tributary) in Texas {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouachita National Forest
The Ouachita National Forest is a vast congressionally-designated United States National Forest, National Forest that lies in the western portion of Arkansas and portions of extreme-eastern Oklahoma, USA. History The Ouachita National Forest is the oldest National Forest in the southern United States. The forest encompasses , including most of the scenic Ouachita Mountains, Ouachita Mountain Range. Six locations in the forest, comprising , have been congressionally-designated as wilderness areas. ''Ouachita'' is the French spelling of the Indian word ''Washita'', which means "good hunting grounds". The forest was known as Arkansas National Forest on its establishment on December 18, 1907; the name was changed to Ouachita National Forest on April 29, 1926. image:AR Ouachita National Forest.jpg, 250px, Ouachita National Forest Rich in history, the rugged and scenic Ouachita Mountains were explored by Europeans in 1541 by Hernando de Soto (explorer), Hernando de Soto' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caney Creek Wilderness
The Caney Creek Wilderness is a rugged 14,460-acre (58.5 km2) segment of the Ouachita National Forest just outside of the mountain town of Mena, Arkansas. It was designated by Congress in 1975 as the first wilderness area in Arkansas. The wilderness' main drainage and namesake, Caney Creek, winds through old-growth bottomland forest and is surrounded by tall, steep ridges, with the clear Cossatot River bordering the wilderness on the west side. The wilderness is known for exceptional air and water quality as well as virgin forest and excellent vistas. Scenery and description The Caney Creek Wilderness is located in the south-central range of the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, an area characterized by swift flowing, clear mountain streams, dense and biodiverse forestland, sharp mountain peaks, and the most rainfall of anywhere in Arkansas. This rainfall contributes to high levels of biodiversity in the area, which was a major factor contributing to the protection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caney Creek (Kentucky)
Caney Creek may refer to: * Caney Creek (Arkansas) in the Ouachita National Forest **Caney Creek Wilderness, Arkansas * Caney Creek (Kentucky) **Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a city along the creek known to its inhabitants as "Caney Creek" * Caney Creek (Pine Creek tributary) in Ozark County, Missouri * Caney Creek (Scott County, Missouri) *Caney Creek (Oklahoma) Caney Creek is a watercourse in Adair County and Cherokee County in Oklahoma. It forms just southeast of Stilwell and travels on an arc generally northwest, west, and then southwest before emptying into Tenkiller Ferry Lake on the Illinois Riv ..., located in Adair and Cherokee counties in Oklahoma * Caney Creek (Matagorda Bay) in Texas * Caney Creek (San Jacinto River tributary) in Texas {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Passes, Kentucky
Pippa Passes is a home rule-class city located along Caney Fork in Knott County, eastern Kentucky, United States. Its formal name was chosen to honor benefactors of Alice Lloyd College. Residents commonly call the community "Caney" or "Caney Creek". The population was 533 at the 2010 census, up from 297 at the 2000 census. The small city is located in the mountainous Appalachia region, an area of coal mining. History This settlement was known as "Caney" or "Caney Creek" before 1916, when Alice Lloyd arrived from Boston, Massachusetts. She solicited funds for the construction of a local post office and the founding of Caney Creek Junior College, which were opened in 1917 and 1923, respectively. A donation from the Browning Society led to the post office's being named after Robert Browning's ''Pippa Passes.'' In this verse drama, he coined the phrase "God's in His heaven, all's right with the world." (Given the U.S. Postal Service's preference for monogrammatic names, this locat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caney Creek (Pine Creek Tributary)
Caney Creek is a stream in Ozark County in the Ozarks of south central Missouri. The stream is a tributary of Pine Creek. The stream headwaters arise on Preston Flat Ridge in the Caney Mountain Conservation Area about six miles north of Gainesville. The stream flows to the southeast passing Caney Mountain, which was named for the creek, and under Missouri Route 181 southwest of Zanoni and continues on to the southeast to its confluence with Pine Creek southwest of the community of Luna and one mile northwest of the confluence of Pine Creek with Bryant Creek Bryant Creek (also known as Bryant River) is a stream in the Ozarks of Missouri. Bryant Creek has headwaters just west of Lead Hill and southeast Cedar Gap in southwestern Wright County and flows in a southeasterly direction through Douglas Cou ... northwest of Tecumseh.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 63, References Rivers of Ozark County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caney Creek (Scott County, Missouri)
Caney Creek is a stream in Scott County in southeast Missouri. The stream headwaters arise northwest of Benton at . The stream flows east then turns to the northwest passing under U.S. Route 61 twice north of Benton. The stream flows west passing north of New Hamburg, under Missouri Route 77 and north of the community of Bleda (originally known as Caney Creek) and ends at in the ''Old Caney Basin'' at Drainage ditch #1.''Oran, MO'' and ''Chaffee, MO'', 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangles, USGS, 1963 Caney Creek was so named on account of canebrake near its course. 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 (A ... References Rivers of Scott County, Missouri Rivers of Missouri {{ScottCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caney Creek (Oklahoma)
Caney Creek is a watercourse in Adair County and Cherokee County in Oklahoma. It forms just southeast of Stilwell and travels on an arc generally northwest, west, and then southwest before emptying into Tenkiller Ferry Lake on the Illinois River east of Pettit. Popular species of fish caught in Caney Creek include smallmouth bass, spotted bass, and largemouth bass The largemouth bass (''Micropterus salmoides'') is a carnivorous freshwater gamefish in the Centrarchidae ( sunfish) family, a species of black bass native to the eastern and central United States, southeastern Canada and northern Mexico, but .... References Rivers of Oklahoma {{Oklahoma-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caney Creek (Matagorda Bay)
Caney Creek (Matagorda Bay) is a river in Texas that begins northwest of Wharton, flows generally southeast, and empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Sargent. The major waterway to the west is the Colorado River while the next major waterway to the east is the San Bernard River. Geography Caney Creek rises 1 mile south of Matthews in Colorado County "within the maze of irrigation canals, dead-water sloughs, and old stream channels" at the northern edge of Wharton County. From there, Caney Creek flows southeast before discharging into the Intracoastal Waterway a distance of southeast of Sargent. Thousands of years ago, the Colorado River flowed through the Caney Creek channel before diverting into its present course. In fact, Caney Creek merges with the Colorado River about above Glen Flora and leaves the Colorado just below than town. The creek's wide meanders identify it as a very old stream. Caney Creek is intermittent until the Matagorda County line when other streams emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
