Red River (Mississippi watershed)

For other uses, see Red River. The Red River is one of several rivers with that name. It rises in two branches (forks) in the Texas Panhandle and flows east along the border of Texas and Oklahoma, and briefly between Texas and Arkansas. At Fulton, Arkansas, the river turns south into Louisiana to empty into the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers. The total length of this journey is 2189 km (1360 mi). The river gains its name from the red-clay farmland of its watershed. Since 1943 the Red River has been dammed by Denison Dam to form Lake Texoma, a large reservoir of 360 km² (89,000 acres), some 113 km (70 mi) north of Dallas. Other reservoirs serve as flood control on the river's tributaries. The Red is a large river, with a mean flow of over 7000 ft³/s.
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