The Blackwater River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed May 31, 2011 tributary of the Lamine River in west-central Missouri in the United States. Via the Lamine and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The Blackwater River was named from the character of its banks and water.
Course
The Blackwater River is formed by the confluence of the North Fork Blackwater River and the South Fork Blackwater River in Johnson County approximately northwest of Warrensburg. The river flows generally east-northeastwardly through Johnson, Pettis, Saline and Cooper counties, past the towns of Sweet Springs and Blackwater. It flows into the Lamine River in northwestern Cooper County, approximately southeast of Blackwater.Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, pp. 35-6
The North Fork of the Blackwater starts at and the South fork starts at (about 1000 feet apart) both an elevation of approximately 1050 feet. The North Fork source is in the southwestern corner of Lafayette County near the small village of Chapel Hill and the South fork source is just to the southwest across the county line in the northwest corner of Johnson County.Chapel Hill, MO, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS 1963
Several sections of the river's upper course have been straightened and channelized.
See also
List of Missouri rivers
References
External links
Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry