Little Flint Creek is a stream in Benton County,

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 east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...

. It forms northeast of

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, and flows generally southwest to become a tributary of Flint Creek to the north-northwest of

Siloam Springs Siloam Springs is a city in Benton County, Arkansas, United States. The city shares a border on the Arkansas-Oklahoma state line with the city of West Siloam Springs, Oklahoma, which is within the Cherokee Nation territory. The town was founded i ...

. It was impounded in the 1975-1978 timeframe to form

Lake Flint Creek Lake Flint Creek, also known as SWEPCO Lake, is located about five miles north of the City of Siloam Springs in Benton County, Arkansas. It was made by constructing a 100’ high dam on Little Flint Creek in the 1975-1978 timeframe, creatin ...

, a 500-acre reservoir that provides cooling water to the

Flint Creek Power Plant Flint Creek Power Plant is a base load, coal fired, electric power, electrical power station located west of Gentry, Arkansas in Benton County, Arkansas. The lone unit uses coal mined from the Powder River Basin shipped via Kansas City Southern ...

as well as fishing to the general public. Flint Creek goes on to flow into

Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okalahoma'' ) is a U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States, bordered by Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the nor ...

, eventually joining the

Illinois River The Illinois River ( mia, Inoka Siipiiwi) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River and is approximately long. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois, it has a drainage basin of . The Illinois River begins at the confluence of the D ...

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