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18 unusual facts about Arkansas river


American Airlines Flight 1420

The aircraft skidded off the far end of the runway at high speed, slammed into a steel walkway with the landing lights for runway 22L and finally came to a stop on the banks of the Arkansas River.

Arkansas Valley Electric Cooperative

The Cooperative serves portions of thirteen counties in the states of Arkansas and Oklahoma, in a territory generally surrounding the Arkansas River valley in west-central Arkansas.

By Sorrow's River

Set in the year 1833, it recounts the Berrybenders' journey south through the Great Plains to Bent's Fort on the Arkansas River.

John Gould Fletcher

The two of them built "Johnswood", a residence on the bluffs of the Arkansas River outside Little Rock.

Lucius M. Walker

At dawn on Sunday, September 6, Walker and Marmaduke squared off with Colt Navy revolvers on the north bank of the Arkansas River near Little Rock.

McDonnell Douglas MD-80

On June 1, 1999, American Airlines Flight 1420, an MD-82 attempting to land in severe weather conditions at Little Rock Airport overshot the runway and crashed into the banks of the Arkansas River.

Mississippian culture

Major sites such as Spiro and the Battle Mound Site are in the Arkansas River and Red River Valleys, the largest and most fertile of the waterways in the Caddoan region, where maize agriculture would have been the most productive.

Paddlefish

The American paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) is currently known from the Mississippi River watershed in the United States, including slow-flowing waters of the Mississippi River itself, as well as various tributaries including the Missouri River, Ohio River, Yellowstone River, Wisconsin River, Des Moines River, and Arkansas River systems.

Pays d'en Haut

They reached the mouth of the Arkansas River, and then returned upstream, having learned that the great river ran towards the Gulf of Mexico and not towards the Pacific Ocean as they had presumed.

Pedro Vial

Near the Arkansas River in Kansas, Vial encountered a party of Kaw Indians who took him and his companions captive, threatened to kill them, and took them to their village on the Kansas River.

Raj Goyle

When he was 15, Goyle was an organizer in a community-wide recycling program that removed hundreds of pounds of garbage from the county landfill and led to a cleanup of the Arkansas River in downtown Wichita.

Robert McGill Loughridge

The Mission was situated one and one-half miles east of the Arkansas River, and twenty-four miles northhwest of Fort Gibson.

The trustees selected a beautiful site on the south side of the Arkansas River, surrounded in the distance by several grand old mountains.

There was a large brick building, three stories high, erected for the Tullahassee school; the building was "admirably arranged", for a boarding school for both boys and girls; it was located on a ridge, in the Arkansas district, one and a-half miles north of the Arkansas River.

Tichosteus

The specific name honours superintendent of public schools Oramel W. Lucas, who collected two vertebrae for Cope, near Arkansas River.

Toad Suck, Arkansas

It is also the location of the Toad Suck Ferry Lock and Dam, on the Arkansas River.

Tulsa Tough

Saint Francis Tulsa Tough attracts professional and amateur racers from across the country racing criterium style races on three different venues in the streets of Downtown Tulsa and along the Arkansas River.

W. R. Holway

In 1918, W. R. became a city waterworks engineer for Tulsa, in charge of a water treatment plant that filtered silt from the Arkansas River water that was then distributed for residential use.


1993 Big Bayou Canot train wreck

The I-40 bridge disaster of 2002 was caused a barge hitting the I-40 bridge over the Arkansas River, which collapsed, causing numerous cars to fall in the river.

Ada Mills

For more than four decades, she spearheaded the campaign to build a replacement bridge on Arkansas Highway 109 over the Arkansas River between Clarksville and the community of Morrison Bluff in Logan County.

Arkansas Highway 109

One of the most famous feature on the route is the Morrison Bluff Bridge, also known as the Ada Mills Bridge, over the Arkansas River.

Bass Reeves

In 2007, the U.S. Route 62 bridge crossing the Arkansas River between Muskogee and Fort Gibson, Oklahoma was named the Bass Reeves Memorial Bridge in his honor.

De Witt, Arkansas

In a few years, as the result of the opening of large plantations along the Arkansas and White Rivers, the towns of Old Auburn and St. Charles became larger than Arkansas Post, which was located in the extreme southern end of the county.

Hughes Mound Site

It is significant as “the only prehistoric pyramidal mound center known south of Benton in the middle of the Saline River valley, and the only known late prehistoric mound center in the Saline River basin north of the Felsenthal region.” The site was an center of society and religion on the northeastern edge of the Caddoan civilization, and was possibly the closest Caddoan center to the prehistoric Quapaw centers in the Arkansas River valley.

Oklahoma State Highway 48

SH-48 crosses the Cimarron River and skirts the western edge of Keystone Lake as it travels its final few miles, intersecting with US-412/Cimarron Turnpike just before terminating at US-64, eight miles (13 km) south of Cleveland.

Towboat

In the United States above St. Louis on the Upper Mississippi River and on other rivers such as the Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas, Tennessee and Cumberland, boats can handle only up to 15 barges due the size of lock chambers.

Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

The I-40 Bridge Disaster happened on May 26, 2002; a barge collided with a bridge support near Webbers Falls, causing a 580 foot section of the I-40 bridge to plunge into the Robert S. Kerr Reservoir on the Arkansas river.