The Fourche River is a tributary of the Black River in Northeast Arkansas and ending in Randolph County, Arkansas near Pocahontas at its confluence with the Black River.Arkansas Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 2004, 2nd edition, p. 28, The source is the confluence of Fourche Creek and the west Fork of the Fourche Creek in Ripley County, Missouri.GNIS dataMissouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 66, The Fourche River flows for in Missouri and Arkansas.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map , accessed March 9, 2011
Other streams in Arkansas with similar names include the Fourche La Fave River that joins the Arkansas River near Bigelow, Arkansas and the Fourche Creek south of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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External links http://watersheds.cast.uark.edu/reports/pdf/1101000901soils_sub.pdf