Kings River (Arkansas)
The Kings River is a tributary of the White River. It rises in the Boston Mountains of Arkansas and flows northward for more than 90 miles into Table Rock Lake in Missouri. Undammed and bordered by rural and forested land, the river is popular for paddling and sport fishing.
The highest sources of the Kings River are at an elevation of more than 2,000 feet (610 m) on the north slope of the Boston Mountains in the Ozark National Forest. The river follows a meandering course with the confluence with the White River being almost due north of the source with a drainage basin of 591 square miles (1,530 km2), before emptying into Table Rock Lake, a reservoir on the White River at an elevation of 915 feet (279 m). The Missouri portion of the river and its confluence with the White River is flooded as part of Table Rock Lake. The town of Berryville, Arkansas is the only incorporated city within the watershed. Near Berryville, the average annual mean flow of the Kings River from 1935 to 2008 was 572 cubic feet of water per second.
The largest tributaries of the Kings River are Osage and Dry Fork Creeks.
The Kings River area was a hunting territory of the Osage Indian tribe during early historic times. In 1827, a man named Henry King from Alabama was part of a prospecting expedition to the Boston Mountains. He died and was buried on the banks of the river which was given his name. Other families from Alabama soon settled the area. About 1940 the poultry industry began to replace subsistence farming as the main source of employment for the sparse population of the region. In 1951 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a dam on the Kings River, but the dam was never constructed, making the Kings River one of the few undammed rivers in the Ozark region.
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