What is White River (Arkansas)?
[[File:White River AR.png|thumb|300px|right|{{center|Map of the White River in Arkansas and Missouri}}]] The '''White River''' is a 722-mile (1,162-km) long [[river]] that flows through the [[U.S. state]]s of [[Arkansas]] and [[Missouri]]. == Course == The source of the White River is in the [[Boston Mountains]] of northwest Arkansas, in the [[Ozark–St. Francis National Forest]] southeast of [[Fayetteville, Arkansas|Fayetteville]]. The river flows northwards from its source in northwest [[Arkansas]]. It loops up through southwest Missouri into [[Table Rock Lake]] at [[Branson, Missouri]]. In Branson the river enters [[Lake Taneycomo]], controlled by the [[Powersite Dam]]. The Powersite was the first dam on the White River. The flow continues downstream into [[Bull Shoals Lake]]. From there it travels back into Arkansas, and then heads generally southeast to where it flows into the [[Mississippi River]]. Despite being much shorter than the [[Arkansas River]], it carries nearly as much water&mdash;normally more than {{convert|20,000|cuft/s|m3/s}}, and occasionally more than {{convert|100,000|cuft/s|m3/s}} during floods. ==River modifications== [[Lake Taneycomo]] was created in 1913 when the [[Empire District Electric Company]] built a dam just south of [[Forsyth, Missouri]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Pfister|first=Fred|title=Insider's Guide: Branson and the Ozark Mountains|url=https://archive.org/details/insidersguidetob0000pfis|year=2006|isbn=0-7627-4042-6}}</ref> Beaver Lake, Table Rock Lake, and Bull Shoals Lake are man-made [[lake]]s or [[reservoir]]s created by the [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]]. This was under the authority of the [[Flood Control Act of 1938]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fws.gov/habitatconservation/Omnibus/FAC1938B.pdf |title=Flood Control Act of 1938 |access-date=2014-05-11 |archive-date=2006-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006003753/http://www.fws.gov/habitatconservation/Omnibus/FAC1938B.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> A total of