White Oak Creek (Sulphur River tributary)

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White Oak Creek is a 140-mile-long (230 km) [1] tributary of the Sulphur River in Texas. Via the Sulphur River, the creek is part of the Red River watershed, flowing to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico.

The Sulphur River is a 175-mile-long (282 km) river in northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas in the United States.

Texas State of the United States of America

Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast.

Red River of the South major tributary of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers in the southern United States

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References

  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 3, 2011

Coordinates: 33°15′50″N94°39′00″W / 33.26401°N 94.64993°W / 33.26401; -94.64993

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