Fox River (Mississippi River tributary)


The Fox River is a stream in Davis, and
Van Buren counties of Iowa, and Clark County of Missouri. It is a tributary of the Mississippi River.
The stream headwaters are at near Drakesville and Bloomfield, Iowa. It crosses the Iowa-Missouri border near Mt Sterling, and its confluence with the Mississippi is about six miles south of the confluence of the Des Moines River, near Alexandria at.
The Fox River was named after the Meskwaki or Fox people.
At Wayland, Missouri, the river has an average discharge of 283 cubic feet per second.

Tributaries