The Eleven Point River is a river in southern

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

and northern

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. It originates near

Willow Springs, Missouri Willow Springs is a city in Howell County, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains of the United States. The population was 2,184 at the 2010 census. History Willow Springs was so named from its position at the site of a spring, surrounded by willo ...

. It more than doubles in flow when

Greer Spring Greer Spring is a first magnitude spring located in the southeast portion of the Ozark Plateau, in Oregon County in south-central Missouri within the boundaries of the Mark Twain National Forest. The spring is the second largest spring in the Oz ...

Branch runs into it, adding over of water per day to the river. The name derives from the Mississippi Valley French word ''pointe'', which is a wooded point of land marking a river bend. ''

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s'' marked distance by counting these points of land or river bends. The river flows into the Spring River southwest of

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near the small town of Black Rock. In 1968 a stretch was named the

Eleven Point National Wild and Scenic River The Eleven Point National Wild and Scenic River is a stretch of the spring-fed Eleven Point River in the Ozarks of southern Missouri set aside through eminent domain for preservation by Congress in 1968. The designated part of the river stretc ...

, one of the original eight rivers chosen to be part of the

National Wild and Scenic River The National Wild and Scenic Rivers System was created by the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-542), enacted by the U.S. Congress to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values in a free- ...

s System.

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Eleven Point River Resource PageEleven Point River ConservancyFriends of the Eleven Point River
Rivers of Missouri Rivers of Arkansas Bodies of water of the Ozarks Tributaries of the White River (Arkansas–Missouri) Rivers of Randolph County, Arkansas Rivers of Howell County, Missouri Rivers of Oregon County, Missouri Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States {{Arkansas-river-stub

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