Muddy Boggy Creek

Muddy Boggy Creek
Muddy Boggy River
River
Country	United States of America
State	Oklahoma
Part of	Red River of the South
Length	175 km (109 mi)

Muddy Boggy River, also known as the Muddy Boggy Creek, is a 175-mile-long (282 km) river in south central Oklahoma. a major tributary of the Red River in south central Oklahoma, is formed by the confluence of Muddy Boggy Creek and Clear Boggy Creek. Both streams converge at a location known as River Mile 24 in . It is a major tributary of the Red River. The river is inhabited by over one hundred species of fish.

Muddy Boggy Creek is located in the counties of , Hughes, Coal, Atoka, and Choctaw.

It begins on the eastern edge of Ada, Oklahoma, and comes within 3 miles (5 km) of the Canadian River before turning southeast and passing through the Arkoma Basin and the western edge of the Ouachita Mountains. It is located in an area once known as the Cross Timbers. It joins the Red River at a point southwest of Hugo, just a few miles upriver from where Highway 271 crosses the Red River at the unincorporated town of Arthur City (TX)

Tributaries of Muddy Boggy Creek include Sand, Caney Boggy, Rock, East Fork, Coal, Caney (Coon), North Boggy, McGee, Cold Spring, Lick and Crowder creeks. Major tributaries of Clear Boggy Creek are Jackfork, Coal, Goose, Leader, Delaware, Sandy, Caney, Fronterhouse, Cowpen, Bois d'Arc and Meyhew creeks. According to Pigg, all of the tributaries in the headwaters are short and deep, while those in the lower elevations are short, shallow and filled with dead timber.

Near the source, the Muddy Boggy passes through the Arbuckle Mountains, and has a gradient of about 100 feet per mile (19 m/km). By the time it flows through the Cretaceous area, the gradient is only 5 feet per mile (0.95 m/km). It then flows through the Ouachita Mountains.

...
Wikipedia