Loutre River (Missouri River)

For rivers with similar names, see Rivière à la Loutre (disambiguation).
The Loutre River as seen at the Loutre Lick Public Fishing Access south west of Mineola, Missouri.

The Loutre River is a 58.4-mile-long (94.0 km)[1] tributary of the Missouri River in the United States. The Loutre River begins in Audrain County. It flows into the Missouri River from the north in Montgomery County opposite the town of Hermann. Loutre, meaning "otter", was applied to the river by French trappers. At Mineola, the river has a mean annual discharge of 98 cubic feet per second.[2]

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 31, 2011
  2. ^ "USGS Surface Water data for Missouri: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".