Lexic.us

Definition of Neosho River

1. Noun. A river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Neosho River

Literary usage of Neosho River

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The University Geological Survey of Kansas: Reports by Kansas Geological Survey (1896)
"A. THE Neosho River SECTION. THE CHEROKEE SHALES. The northwestern limit of the Mississippian or Sub-Carboniferous formation along the Neosho river was not ..."

2. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1869)
"Also the further tract within their prirent reserve, bounded as follows: Beginning at a point in the Neosho river where the south line of the Quapaw reserve ..."

3. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1899)
"Following it to the south, it passes east of Savonburg nearly to Walnut, thence westward north of Erie, where it crosses the Neosho river. ..."

4. Transactions of the Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science, Kansas Academy of Science Meeting (1899)
"On the north side of Deer creek it trends west from Carlyle to the Neosho river, crossing it below Neosho Falls. On the west side of the Neosho it follows ..."

5. Kansas; a Cyclopedia of State History, Embracing Events, Institutions by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1912)
"Neosho Rapids, an incorporated town in Lyon county, is located in Jackson township on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe RR and on the Neosho river, just below ..."

6. Upper Mississippi, Or, Historical Sketches of the Mound-builders, the Indian by George Gale (1867)
"... to the point on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F£ railroad, where said road intersects the Neosho river; (2,) from the city of Atchison, via Topeka, ..."

7. The Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Benjamin Perley Poore, United States Congress. Senate (1878)
"... and due south to the south branch of the Neosho River, about seventy miles above the Catholic Osage mission; thence down said river to the north line of ..."

8. Went to Kansas: Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-fated Expedition to that by Miriam Davis Colt (1862)
"... is on the Neosho River, between latitude 38°, and the boundary line of the Osage Indian lands, and between 18° and 19° longitude west from Washington. ..."

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