Water

Arkadelphia City [Steamboat]
The Arkadelphia City was a Ouachita River steamboat that suffered a disastrous boiler explosion on April 25, 1...
Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum
The Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum (AIMM) in North Little Rock (Pulaski County) is home to Arkansas’s only ...
Arkansas River
The Arkansas River originates high in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains near Leadville, Colorado, and i...
Arkansas Traveler [Steamboat]
The Arkansas Traveler was a steamboat that sank after hitting a snag in the Arkansas River below Pine Bluff (J...
Arkansas Waterways Commission
The Arkansas Waterways Commission was established by Act 242 of 1967, and its powers and duties were amended b...
Steamboats Named Arkansas
At least twenty nineteenth-century steamboats were called Arkansas or a derivative of the state’s name, acco...
B. M. Runyan [Steamboat]
The steamboat B. M. Runyan was carrying a regiment of Union soldiers when it struck a snag in the Mississippi ...
Baring Cross Bridge
The Baring Cross Bridge is located in downtown Little Rock (Pulaski County) over the Arkansas River at river m...
Bart Tully [Steamboat]
The Bart Tully was a steam towboat that abruptly sank on the Mississippi River near Osceola (Mississippi Count...
Belle of Texas [Steamboat]
The Belle of Texas was a steamboat running between Little Rock (Pulaski County) and Memphis, Tennessee, when i...
Belle Zane [Steamboat]
The Belle Zane was a sternwheel river packet that struck a snag on the Mississippi River about twelve miles be...
Blakely Mountain Dam
aka: Blakely Dam
aka: Lake Ouachita
Blakely Mountain Dam, located approximately ten miles northwest of ...
Brandywine [Steamboat]
The Brandywine was a steamboat that caught fire in early April 1832, resulting in a significant loss of life a...
Bridges
At the time Arkansas became a territory, most water crossings were fords. When travelers came to a body of wat...
Bull Shoals Dam and Lake
Bull Shoals Dam site is located on the White River about ten miles west of Mountain Home (Baxter County), wher...
Cache River
The Cache River arises near the Arkansas-Missouri border at the confluence of a few agricultural ditches and f...
Caddo River
The Caddo River of west-central Arkansas is known widely as the Natural State’s premier family float str...
Cambridge [Steamboat]
The steamboat Cambridge was carrying a regiment of Confederate soldiers on the White River when it struck a sn...
Car of Commerce [Steamboat]
The Car of Commerce was a steamboat that burst a boiler north of Osceola (Mississippi County) on May 14, 1828,...
Caroline [Steamboat]
The Caroline was a steamboat that caught fire while traveling up the White River on March 5, 1854, and sank, w...
Carpenter Dam
aka: Lake Hamilton
Carpenter Dam is the second of three dams constructed along the Oua...
Flavius Josephus (Flave) Carpenter (1851–1933)
Flavius Josephus (Flave) Carpenter was a steamboat captain, U.S. marshal, and businessman. He is credited with...
Cherokee [Steamboat]
The Cherokee was a steamboat that sustained a devastating and deadly boiler explosion at Lewisburg (Conway Cou...
Clarksville [Steamboat]
The Clarksville was a steamboat that caught fire while heading up the Mississippi River on May 27, 1848. Twent...
Clermont [Steamboat]
The Clermont was a small steamboat that struck a snag and sank in the Mississippi River on March 8, 1867; one ...
Clermont No. 2 [Steamboat]
The steamboat Clermont No. 2 sank after hitting a snag on the White River near Augusta (Woodruff County) on De...
Coast Guard Auxiliary
aka: U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, established by Congress in 1939 to ...
Comet [Steamboat]
The Comet was the first steamboat to go up the Arkansas River, arriving at Arkansas Post on March 31, 1820. Th...
Collision of Congress and Saladin
The steam packet Saladin collided with the steamboat Congress on the evening of February 14, 1846, near Island...
Collision of the Steamboats Cote Joyeuse and Talma
The steamboats Cote Joyeuse and Talma collided near Big Cypress Bend (Chicot County) on the Mississippi River ...
Danville [Steamboat]
The Danville was a small steamboat that opened the Petit Jean River for riverine commerce in 1872 and played a...
Dardanelle Pontoon Bridge
The Dardanelle Pontoon Bridge was the largest pontoon bridge in existence in the United States, crossing the A...