The Ouachita River ( ) is a
river that runs south and east through the
U.S.
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states of
Arkansas
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and
Louisiana
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, joining the
Tensas River
The Tensas River is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river, known as Tensas Bayou in its upper reaches, begins in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of the state and runs roughly southwest for U.S. Geological Survey. Nationa ...
to form the
Black River near
Jonesville, Louisiana
Jonesville is the largest town in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States, at the confluence of the Ouachita, Tensas, and Little rivers. The three rivers become the Black River at Jonesville.
The Jonesville population was 2,265 at the 20 ...
. It is the
25th-longest river in the United States (by main stem).
Course
The Ouachita River begins in the
Ouachita Mountains
The Ouachita Mountains (), simply referred to as the Ouachitas, are a mountain range in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. They are formed by a thick succession of highly deformed Paleozoic strata constituting the Ouachita Fold and Thru ...
near
Mena, Arkansas. It flows east into
Lake Ouachita
Lake Ouachita (''Pronounced WAH-shi-tah'') is a reservoir created by the damming of the Ouachita River by Blakely Mountain Dam ().
Blakely Mountain Dam was built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers from 1948 to 1953 for hydroelectric p ...
, a reservoir created by Blakely Mountain Dam. The North Fork and South Fork of the Ouachita flow into Lake Ouachita to join the main stream. Portions of the river in this region flow through the
Ouachita National Forest
The Ouachita National Forest is a vast congressionally-designated 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 t ...
. From the lake, the Ouachita flows south into
Lake Hamilton, a reservoir created by Carpenter Dam, named after
Flavius Josephus Carpenter
Flavius Josephus Carpenter (March 24, 1851, in Franklin County, Georgia β August 2, 1933, at home in Arkadelphia, Clark County, Arkansas), was an American Civil War veteran, steamboat captain, U.S. Marshal, and entrepreneurial businessman.
H ...
. The city of
Hot Springs lies on the north side of Lake Hamilton. Another reservoir,
Lake Catherine, impounds the Ouachita just below Lake Hamilton. Below Lake Catherine, the river flows free through most of the rest of Arkansas.
Just below Lake Catherine, the river bends south near
Malvern
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, and collects the
Caddo River
The Caddo River is a tributary of the Ouachita River in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The river is about long.Calculated in Google Maps and Google Earth
Course
The Caddo River flows out of the Ouachita Mountains through Montgomery, Pike, and Clar ...
near
Arkadelphia
Arkadelphia is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,714. The city is the county seat of Clark County. It is situated at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Two universities, Henderso ...
. Downstream, the
Little Missouri River joins the Ouachita. After passing the city of
Camden, shortly downstream from where dredging for navigational purposes begins, the river collects the waters of Smackover Creek and later the Ouachita's main tributary, the
Saline River. South of the Saline, the Ouachita flows into Lake Jack Lee, a reservoir created by the Ouachita and Black River Project, just north of the Louisiana state line. The
Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge
The Felsenthal National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) is a 76,000 acre (307.56 km2) national wildlife refuge located in south-central Arkansas in Ashley, Bradley, and Union counties. Felsenthal NWR is one of three refuges forming an administrative complex ...
encompasses the Ouachita from the Saline River to Lake Jack Lee's mouth.
Below Lake Jack Lee, the Ouachita continues south into Louisiana. The river flows generally south through the state, collecting the tributary waters of
Bayou Bartholomew
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, Bayou de Loutre, Bayou d'Arbonne, the
Boeuf River
The Boeuf River () is a tributary of the Ouachita River in the U.S. states of Arkansas
Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the South Central United States. It is bordered by Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the e ...
, and the
Tensas River
The Tensas River is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river, known as Tensas Bayou in its upper reaches, begins in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of the state and runs roughly southwest for U.S. Geological Survey. Nationa ...
.
The Ouachita has five
locks
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* ''Lock ...
and
dam
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s along its length, located at
Camden,
Calion, and
Felsenthal, Arkansas
Felsenthal is a town in Union County, Arkansas, United States. The population was 152 at the 2000 census and 150 at the 2010 census. It lays right on the Ouachita River in the southeastern corner of Union County. The small community attracts to ...
, and in
Columbia and
Jonesville, Louisiana
Jonesville is the largest town in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States, at the confluence of the Ouachita, Tensas, and Little rivers. The three rivers become the Black River at Jonesville.
The Jonesville population was 2,265 at the 20 ...
.
Black River
The river below the junction with the Tensas at is called the Black River and flows for
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
, accessed June 3, 2011 in
Catahoula and
Concordia parishes until it joins the
Red River, which flows into both the
Atchafalaya River
The Atchafalaya River ( french: La RiviΓ¨re Atchafalaya, es, RΓo Atchafalaya) is a distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River, and ...
and the Mississippi River, via the
Old River Control Structure
The Old River Control Structure is a floodgate system in a branch of the Mississippi River in central Louisiana. It regulates the flow of water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River, thereby preventing the Mississippi River from chan ...
.
History
The river is named for the
Ouachita tribe The Ouachita are a Native American tribe who lived in northeastern Louisiana along the Ouachita River. Their name has also been pronounced as Washita by English speakers. The spelling "Ouachita" and pronunciation "Wah-sha-taw" came about as a resul ...
, one of several historic tribes who lived along it. Others included the
Caddo,
Osage Nation
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,
Tensa
Tensa is a Town Wonder Natural Hill Station in Sundargarh District in the Indian state of Odisha. It has been declared the best mine by the Director General of Mines Safety, Govt. of India. Its origins are unknown, but it is believed it was trib ...
,
Chickasaw
The Chickasaw ( ) are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands. Their traditional territory was in the Southeastern United States of Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee as well in southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as ...
, and
Choctaw
The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta) are a Native American people originally based in the Southeastern Woodlands, in what is now Alabama and Mississippi. Their Choctaw language is a Western Muskogean language. Today, Choctaw people are ...
. The historian
Muriel Hazel Wright
Muriel Hazel Wright (31 March 1889 β 27 February 1975) was an American teacher, historian and writer on the Choctaw Nation. A native of Indian Territory, she was the daughter of mixed-blood Choctaw physician Eliphalet Wright and the granddaug ...
suggested that word Ouachita ''owa chito'' is a Choctaw phrase meaning "hunt big" or "good hunting grounds".
Before the rise of the historic tribes, their
indigenous
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ancestors lived along the river for thousands of years. In the Lower Mississippi Valley, they began building monumental earthwork mounds in the
Middle Archaic period (6000β2000 BC in Louisiana).
The earliest construction was
Watson Brake, an 11-mound complex built about 3500 BC by hunter gatherers in present-day Louisiana. The discovery and dating of several such early sites in northern Louisiana has changed the traditional model, which associated mound building with sedentary, agricultural societies, but these cultures did not develop for thousands of years.
The largest such prehistoric mound was destroyed in the 20th century during construction of a bridge at
Jonesville, Louisiana
Jonesville is the largest town in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States, at the confluence of the Ouachita, Tensas, and Little rivers. The three rivers become the Black River at Jonesville.
The Jonesville population was 2,265 at the 20 ...
. Likely built by the
Mississippian culture, which rose about 1000 AD on the Mississippi and its tributaries, this mound was reported in use as late as 1540 by the Spanish
explorer
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Hernando de Soto
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. On his expedition through this area, he encountered Indians occupying the site. A
lightning
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strike destroyed the temple on the mound that year, which was seen as a bad omen by the tribe. They never rebuilt the temple, and were recorded as abandoning the site in 1736.
Land speculators
During the late 1700s, when the area was controlled by the Spanish and French, the river served as a route for early colonists, and for land
speculators
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Many s ...
such as the self-styled
Baron de Bastrop. The "Bastrop lands" later passed into the hands of another speculator, former Vice President
Aaron Burr
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. He saw potential for big profits in the event of a war with Spain following the
Louisiana Purchase
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. Burr and many of his associates were arrested for treason, before their band of armed settlers reached the Ouachita.
During the 1830s, the Ouachita River Valley attracted land speculators from New York and southeastern cities. Its rich soil and accessibility due to the country's elaborate river
steamboat
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network made it desirable.
One of the investors from the east was Meriwether Lewis Randolph, the youngest grandson of
Thomas Jefferson
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. He was building a home on the Ouachita River in what is now
Clark County, Arkansas, when he died of
malaria
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in 1837. He had been appointed Secretary of the
Arkansas Territory
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by President
Andrew Jackson
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in 1835, and had relinquished his commission when Arkansas became a state in 1836.
Steamboats, 1819 to 1890
Steamboats operated on the
Red River to
Shreveport, Louisiana.
In April 1815, Captain Henry Miller Shreve was the first person to bring a steamboat, the Enterprise, up the Red River.
During the 1830s, farmers cultivated land for large
cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus ''Gossypium'' in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose, and can contain minor perce ...
plantations; dependent on slave labor, cotton production supported new planter wealth in the
ante-bellum years.
Steamboat
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s ran scheduled trips between
Camden, Arkansas and
. A person could travel from any eastern city to the Ouachita River without touching land, except to transfer from one steamboat to another.
In the late 1830s, the steamboats in rivers on the west side of the Mississippi River were a long, wide, shallow draft vessel, lightly built with an engine on the deck. These newer steamboats could sail in just 20 inches of water. Contemporaries claimed that they could "run with a lot of heavy dew".
In 1881 a
snagboat
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USA
During the American Civil ...
was employed on the river and a boat for
dredging
Dredging is the excavation of material from a water environment. Possible reasons for dredging include improving existing water features; reshaping land and water features to alter drainage, navigability, and commercial use; constructing da ...
in the shoals to the amount of $141,879.24. Earlier plans had called for the construction of locks and dams.
Civil War
Skirmishes took place near the Ouachita River during the
American Civil War
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. On September 1, 1863, forces of the Seventeenth
Wisconsin
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led by Brig. Gen. M. M. Crocker crossed from
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,
Mississippi
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to
Vidalia, the seat of
Concordia Parish
Concordia Parish (french: Paroisse de Concordia) borders the Mississippi River in eastern central Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,822. The parish seat is Vidalia. The parish was formed in 1807.
Concordia Parish is part ...
, and moved toward the lower Ouachita in the section called the Black River. That night the
Confederate
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steamer ''Rinaldo'' was captured by Union forces after a short artillery duel and was destroyed. Crocker fought with the few troops stationed on the Black River and moved toward
Harrisonburg, seat of
Catahoula Parish
Catahoula Parish (french: Paroisse de Catahoula) is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,407. Its seat is Harrisonburg, on the Ouachita River. The parish was formed in 1808, shortly after the ...
.
Navigation
A 337-mile-long "Ouachita-Black Rivers Navigation Project" began in 1902, to create a navigable waterway from
Camden, Arkansas to
Jonesville, Louisiana
Jonesville is the largest town in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States, at the confluence of the Ouachita, Tensas, and Little rivers. The three rivers become the Black River at Jonesville.
The Jonesville population was 2,265 at the 20 ...
, and when completed in 1924 included six locks and dams that were 84 feet wide and 600 feet in length, having from 3 to 5
tainter gate
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A side view of a Tainter gate resembles a slice of pie with the ...
s. Including the Black River the total navigable length is 351 miles. The Ouachita-Black Rivers Navigation Project has less than a million tons of shipping annually which has the likely prospect of the future withdrawal of federal support. The project's system of dams and locks enhances the river's recreational use and regional water supply.
Floods
=Flood of 1882
=
The Ouachita River reached a historic flood stage crest with a river gauge reading at Camden, Arkansas of 46 feet on May 12, 1882.
=Flood of 1927
=
In Monroe, Louisiana during a flood on May 4, 1927 the high water mark on river gage reading was 48.6 feet.
Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
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flooded the areas along the Ouachita Rivers along with many other rivers.
=Flood of 1932
=
In February 1932, the Ouachita River rose 1.5 feet higher than the May 4, 1927 flood. The annual high water mark on river gage readings were 48.6 in 1927 and 49.7 in 1932.
[
]
=Flood of 1968
=
The Ouachita River reached flood stage crest with a river gauge reading at Camden, Arkansas of 43.08 feet on May 17, 1968.[
]
=Flood of 2018
=
The Ouachita River reached flood stage crest at 85.43 feet above sea level, about 20 feet above the normal water level of 65 feet at the Felsenthal lock and dam on March 11, 2018. The highest water level ever recorded at Felsenthal was 88.3 feet in 1945.
Natural history
The river continues to be utilized for commercial navigation on a smaller scale than during its "steamboat
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" days. It is fed by numerous small creeks containing endemic
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native fish such as killifish
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. Fishing remains popular in the river for black bass
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, white bass
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, bream
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, freshwater drum
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, and gar
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. Concerns about airborne mercury contamination
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in some areas discourage consumption of the fish for food. Fishing for rainbow trout
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is popular in the tailwaters of Lakes Ouachita, Hamilton and Catherine in and around Hot Springs, Arkansas
Hot Springs is a resort city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County. The city is located in the Ouachita Mountains among the U.S. Interior Highlands, and is set among several natural hot springs for which the city is n ...
.
The river is commercially navigable from Camden, Arkansas, to its terminal point in Jonesville in Catahoula Parish
Catahoula Parish (french: Paroisse de Catahoula) is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,407. Its seat is Harrisonburg, on the Ouachita River. The parish was formed in 1808, shortly after the ...
in eastern Louisiana. Upstream of Camden, the river receives substantial recreational use.
The Ouachita is lined for most of its length with deep woods, including substantial wetland
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s. It has a scenic quality representative of the southwestern Arkansas and northern Louisiana region.
Lists
Major towns along the river are:
* Hot Springs, Arkansas
Hot Springs is a resort city in the state of Arkansas and the county seat of Garland County. The city is located in the Ouachita Mountains among the U.S. Interior Highlands, and is set among several natural hot springs for which the city is n ...
* Malvern, Arkansas
* Arkadelphia, Arkansas
Arkadelphia is a city in Clark County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,714. The city is the county seat of Clark County. It is situated at the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains. Two universities, Hender ...
* Camden, Arkansas
* Sterlington, Louisiana
* Monroe, Louisiana
Monroe (historically french: Poste-du-Ouachita) is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, and parish seat of Ouachita Parish. With a 2020 census-tabulated population of 47,702, it is the principal city of the Monroe metropolita ...
* West Monroe, Louisiana
West Monroe is a city in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, United States. It is situated on the Ouachita River, across from the neighboring city of Monroe. The two cities are often referred to as the Twin Cities of northeast Louisiana. Its population ...
* Columbia, Louisiana
Columbia is a town in, and the parish seat of, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 390 as of the 2010 census, down from 477 in 2000.
History
The land that became Columbia was first cleared by Daniel Humphries in 1827. A ...
* Harrisonburg, Louisiana
Harrisonburg is a village in and the parish seat of Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 348 as of the 2010 census, down from 746 in 2000.
Riley J. Wilson, who held Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat from 191 ...
* Jonesville, Louisiana
Jonesville is the largest town in Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States, at the confluence of the Ouachita, Tensas, and Little rivers. The three rivers become the Black River at Jonesville.
The Jonesville population was 2,265 at the 20 ...
See also
* List of Arkansas rivers
List of rivers in Arkansas ( U.S. state).
For a list of dams and reservoirs in Arkansas, see List of Arkansas dams and reservoirs Rivers are listed by drainage basin, by size, and alphabetically.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by draina ...
* List of Louisiana rivers
List of rivers of Louisiana (U.S. state).
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Gulf of Mexico
East of the Mississippi
*Pearl River
**Bogue Chitto River
...
* List of longest rivers of the United States (by main stem)
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References
*William Least Heat-Moon, ''Roads to Quoz, An American Mosey'' (2008), . Section I β "Down an Ancient Valley" describes a trip down the Ouachita River valley.
External links
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