Piney Creek is a
stream
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in southern
Carroll County of the
U.S. state
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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 east, Louisiana to the south, and Texas and Oklahoma to the west. Its name is from the Osage ...
.
It is a tributary to the
Kings River.
The stream headwaters arise near
[ at an elevation of approximately 1660 feet. The source area is on the southwest flank of Usery Mountain just north of ]Arkansas Highway 68
U.S. Highway 412 (US 412) runs east-to-west through northern Arkansas for about . The route begins at the Oklahoma state line near Siloam Springs, and ends at the Missouri state line east of Paragould.
Route description
Oklahoma to A ...
about one half mile northeast of Gobbler. The stream flows northwest parallel to Arkansas Highway 103
Highway 103 (AR 103, Ark. 103, and Hwy. 103) is a designation for two north–south state highways in Arkansas. One segment begins in Clarksville in the Arkansas River Valley and runs north to the Ozark National Forest. A second route runs throu ...
past Rudd
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and Metalton. It passes under Arkansas Highway 21
Highway 21 (AR 21, Ark. 21, and Hwy. 21) is a north–south state highway in north central Arkansas. The route of runs from US Route 64 (US 64) in Clarksville north across US 62 to Missouri Route 13 at the Missouri state line The route is ...
at Metalton and continues to the northwest to enter the Kings River at the Carroll-Madison county line at and an elevation of 1132 feet.[
Piney Creek was so named for the ]pine
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timber along its course.
References
Rivers of Carroll County, Arkansas
Rivers of Madison County, Arkansas
Rivers of Arkansas
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