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Tarkio River
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Tarkio River is a stream in southwestern Iowa and northwestern Missouri. It is a tributary to the Missouri River and is 81.1 miles long. The river is monitored by USGS at Fairfax, Missouri and is considered a major water source by the Iowa DNR.
The river passes rural areas and figures most prominently in the drainage system nears its mouth in management of Big Lake, Missouri and the Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, formerly known as Squaw Creek National Wildlife Refuge. Several streams and ditches in the Missouri River bottoms near its mouth contain the Tarkio name.
80.8 mi total
1 sections
2 access points
0 camps
0 rapids
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Click any point for details. Sections without stored geometry are drawn as straight put-in → take-out lines — actual courses follow the river.