USGS 06923950 at Tunnel Dam near Macks Creek, MO[2]
• average
450 cu ft/s (13 m3/s)
• minimum
0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s)
• maximum
27,700 cu ft/s (780 m3/s)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left
Little Niangua River
Watersheds
Niangua-Osage-Missouri-Mississippi
The Niangua River/naɪˈæŋɡwə/ is a 125-mile-long (201 km)[3] tributary of the Osage River in the Ozarks region of southern and central Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Niangua River has the name of Niangua (or Nehemgar), an Indian tribal leader.[4] The name is said to mean "bear".[5]
^"Niangua River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
^"Water-Data Report 2012 - 06923950 Niangua River at Tunnel Dam near Macks Creek, MO" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-12-03.
^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
^"Webster County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved January 2, 2017.
^Eaton, David Wolfe (1918). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. p. 371. Archived from the original on 2015-02-22. Retrieved 2017-01-03.
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