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The Salt Fork Red River is a sandy-braided stream about long, heading on the
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about north of
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Armstrong County, Texas Armstrong County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in the Texas Panhandle and its county seat is Claude. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,848. Armstrong County is included in the Amarillo metropolitan area. T ...
, flowing east across the Texas Panhandle and Western Oklahoma to join the Red River about south of
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of Jackson County, Oklahoma.


Course

The Salt Fork Red River rises in northern
Armstrong County, Texas Armstrong County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. It is in the Texas Panhandle and its county seat is Claude. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,848. Armstrong County is included in the Amarillo metropolitan area. T ...
just to the south of
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. It flows southeast across Donley and
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. Crossing into
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at the 100th meridian, it flows through Harmon County and Greer County, Oklahoma. It turns south near Mangum, Oklahoma and flows through central Jackson County, Oklahoma to its confluence with the Red River about northwest of
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or south of
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.


See also

* Double Mountain Fork Brazos River * Geography of Oklahoma *
List of rivers in Oklahoma This is a list of rivers in the state of Oklahoma, listed by drainage basin, alphabetically, and by size. In mean flow of water per second, the Arkansas is Oklahoma's largest river, followed by the Red River and the Neosho River. By drainage bas ...
* List of Texas rivers *
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*
Palo Duro Canyon Palo Duro Canyon is a canyon system of the Caprock Escarpment located in the Texas Panhandle near the cities of Amarillo, Texas, Amarillo and Canyon, Texas, Canyon. As the second-largest canyon in the United States, it is roughly long and has an ...
* Prairie Dog Town Fork Red River * Salt Fork Brazos River *
Yellow House Canyon Yellow House Canyon is about long, heading in Lubbock, Texas, at the junction of Blackwater Draw and Yellow House Draw, and trending generally southeastward to the edge of the Llano Estacado about east of Slaton, Texas; it forms one of three ma ...
* White River (Texas)


References


External links


Handbook of TexasOklahoma Digital Maps: Digital Collections of Oklahoma and Indian Territory
Rivers of Oklahoma Rivers of Texas Tributaries of the Red River of the South Rivers of Armstrong County, Texas Rivers of Jackson County, Oklahoma {{Texas-river-stub