| Barren Fork Barren Fork Creek | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| Region | Ozark County |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 36°41′44″N 92°26′17″W / 36.69556°N 92.43806°W |
| • elevation | 1,200[1] ft (370 m) |
| Mouth | |
• coordinates | 36°37′13″N 92°37′19″W / 36.62028°N 92.62194°W |
• elevation | 676 ft (206 m) |
| [2] | |
Barren Fork is a stream in Ozark County, Missouri.[2] It is a tributary of the Little North Fork White River. The headwaters of the stream are along the west side of the Caney Mountain Conservation Area north of Gainesville. The stream flows west past Willhoit and under Missouri Route 5 continuing into the Mark Twain National Forest south of Nottinghill to its confluence with the Little North Fork White River north of Isabella.[3] The confluence is within the waters of Bull Shoals Lake and the normal lake level is at 695 feet.[4]
A variant name is "Barren Fork Creek".[2] The creek is so named on account of the relatively few trees which lined its banks.[5]
- ^ Gainesville NW, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Barren Fork
- ^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 63, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
- ^ Wilhoit, Missouri, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1968
- ^ "Ozark County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016.