Pomme de Terre River (Missouri)
| Pomme de Terre River Potato River | |
|---|---|
Map of the Osage River watershed showing the Pomme de Terre River | |
| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Missouri |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Marshfield, Missouri |
| • coordinates | 37°20′24″N 92°56′43″W / 37.34000°N 92.94528°W |
| • elevation | 1,454 ft (443 m) |
| Mouth | Truman Reservoir |
• location | Hickory County, Missouri |
• coordinates | 38°00′35″N 93°18′59″W / 38.00972°N 93.31639°W |
• elevation | 709 ft (216 m) |
| Length | 130 mi (210 km) |
| Basin size | 840 sq mi (2,200 km2) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | USGS 06921350 near Hermitage, MO |
| • average | 546 cu ft/s (15.5 m3/s) |
| • minimum | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
| • maximum | 9,000 cu ft/s (250 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Watersheds | Pomme de Terre-Osage-Missouri-Mississippi |
The Pomme de Terre River (pronounced pohm de TEHR) is a 130-mile-long (210 km) tributary of the Osage River in southwestern Missouri in the United States. Via the Osage and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Pomme de terre is French for potato, a food Indians harvested in the area. Before the French explorers, the Osage people, who were historically indigenous to the region, had called it a name meaning Big Bone River, referring to the fossils of mastodons and other ancient creatures which they found along its eroding banks.