Abernathy Spring is a mineral spring located in Polk County, 2.8 km (1.75 mi.) east of the unincorporated comm...

The Antoine River rises from a confluence of streams in the Ouachita Mountains of Pike County, just west of Am...

The Arkansas River originates high in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado, and i...

Arkansas’s boundaries have been the subject of international treaties, treaties with Native American tribes,...

Arkansas’s regional identity is a complex affair, given that the state overlaps the cultural and geographica...

Located in southeast Arkansas, Bayou Bartholomew was, until the construction of railroad lines in the area in ...

Bayou Meto is a slow-moving stream that originates in northern Pulaski County at the confluence of several cre...

Beaver Lake was created by Beaver Dam in Carroll County. The lake—technically a reservoir since it was creat...

The Big Chalybeate Spring is located approximately three miles north of downtown Hot Springs (Garland County) ...

Big Rock is the name now given to a 200-foot bluff located on the north bank of the Arkansas River in North Li...

The Black River has played a significant, but shifting, role in the lives of residents of northeast Arkansas. ...

Frances Lillian (F. L.) Blaisdell, a Little Rock (Pulaski County) businesswoman, was Arkansas’s first publis...

Blue Mountain Lake is a manmade lake, or reservoir, on Petit Jean River in Logan County. A portion of the lake...

Flowing from southeastern Arkansas into northeastern Louisiana, the Boeuf River is a shallow stream important ...

The Boston Mountains in north-central Arkansas are the southern portion of the Ozark Plateau geologic area. Th...

Buffalo Island is a local name given to western Mississippi County and eastern Craighead County. It consists o...

The Cache River arises near the Arkansas-Missouri border at the confluence of a few agricultural ditches and f...

The Caddo River of west-central Arkansas is known widely as the Natural State’s premier family float str...

Cadron Creek flows seventy-five miles through central Arkansas. The creek’s headwaters are at Badders Creek,...

Cadron Ridge is a fifty-mile-long formation that runs from Beebe (White County) to the confluence of Cadron Cr...

Cane Creek is a tributary of the Black River, beginning in the Ozarks of southeastern Missouri and terminating...

Caves and caverns are natural underground openings large enough for humans to enter. They are primarily formed...

The Cossatot River rises in the Ouachita Mountains southeast of Mena (Polk County) and flows southward through...

Crooked Creek is a 129 km (80 mi.) Ozark highland White River tributary in Boone, Marion, and Newton counties ...

Crowley’s Ridge is a small yet distinctive natural region. It ranges in width from one to twelve miles and e...

Crystal Hill is a geological formation on the north side of the Arkansas River near Murray Lock and Dam. It is...

The Current River crosses into Arkansas from Missouri at the border between Randolph and Clay counties and flo...

DeGray Dam, located about eight miles northwest of Arkadelphia (Clark County), impounds the 13,400-acre DeGray...