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Summary. Description. Meramec Park Lake propose v4.svg. English: This map shows the extent of the would-be reservoir on the Meramec River in Missouri if the Corps of Engineers had completed the dam at Sullivan. Construction had already started when the dam was rejected in a non-binding referendum in the surrounding counties in 1978.
Meramec Caverns. / 38.24127°N 91.09237°W / 38.24127; -91.09237. Meramec Caverns is the collective name for a 4.6-mile (7.4 km) cavern system in the Ozarks, near Stanton, Missouri. [1] The caverns were formed from the erosion of large limestone deposits over millions of years. Pre-Columbian Native American artifacts have been found in ...
Dry Fork (Meramec River tributary) Dry Fork is a stream in Crawford, Dent and Phelps counties in the Ozarks of Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the Meramec River . The stream headwaters are at 37°31′32″N 91°38′35″W and the confluence with the Meramec is at 37°58′10″N 91°31′32″W. [1] Dry Fork was named for the fact it ...
88,317 (2008) [1] Location. The Daniel Boone Bridge is the name for two bridges carrying Interstate 64, U.S. Route 40, U.S. Route 61 and the Avenue of the Saints across the Missouri River between St. Louis County and St. Charles County, Missouri. The older bridge, which carries westbound traffic, is a continuous truss bridge, while the newer ...
Most of the region is within Missouri, with a part in Arkansas and small sections in Oklahoma and Kansas. It is the largest subdivision of the region known as the Ozark Mountains, less rugged in comparison to the Boston Mountains in Arkansas, the highest part of the Ozarks. The Ozark Highlands ecoregion has been subdivided into eleven Level IV ...
The Osage River is a 276-mile-long (444 km) [2] tributary of the Missouri River in central Missouri in the United States. The eighth-largest river in the state, it drains a mostly rural area of 15,300 square miles (40,000 km 2 ). The watershed includes an area of east-central Kansas and a large portion of west-central and central Missouri ...
The Gasconade River is about 280 miles (450 km) long and is located in central and south-central Missouri.. The Gasconade River begins in the Ozarks southwest of Hartville in Wright County and flows generally north-northeastwardly through Wright, Laclede, Pulaski, Phelps, Maries, Osage and Gasconade counties, through portions of the Mark Twain National Forest.
Potamilus leptodon, the scaleshell mussel or scale shell, is a species of freshwater mussel in the family Unionidae, the river mussels. This aquatic bivalve mollusk has disappeared from much of its historical range. It is endemic to the United States, where it is now present in four or fewer states; it is only found with any regularity in Missouri.