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Place Name
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Poteau River
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Pronunciation
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PO-to
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Place Status (Type)
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river
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Location
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Scott County, Arkansas (AR), United States, North America
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Latitude
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unknown
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Longitude
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unknown
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Poteau River
(PO-to), 128 mi/206 km
long, in Ark. and Okla.; rises in the Ouachita Mts., in Scott co., W
Ark.; flows W into Okla., where it is joined by the small Fourche
Moline, then NNE, past Poteau, Shadypoint, and Panama, to Arkansas R.
at Fort Smith (Ark.). Wister Dam (99 ft/30 m
high, 8,700 ft/2,652 m long, including
concrete spillway and earth-fill barrier and dike; completed 1949 by
U.S. Army Engineers) is in middle course just S of Wister (Okla.); used
for flood control; forms Wister Reservoir
(15 mi/24 km long, max. width
1.5 mi/2.4 km; capacity 430,000
acre-ft.).
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