Fishing River

{{Short description|Stream in Missouri, U.S.}} {{Use American English|date=February 2025}} 250px|thumb|right|Watershed map of the Fishing River in Missouri. The '''Fishing River''' is a {{convert|39|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}}<ref name=NHD>U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329155652/http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ |date=2012-03-29 }}, accessed May 31, 2011</ref> tributary of the Missouri River in western Missouri in the United States. It rises in the northeastern extremity of Kansas City in Clay County and flows generally eastward and southeasterly through Clay and southwestern Ray counties, past the town of Mosby. It joins the Missouri River about {{convert|3|mi|0}} south of the town of Orrick.<ref name=atlas>''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 27, {{ISBN|0-89933-224-2}}</ref>

Downstream of Mosby, it collects the '''East Fork Fishing River''', which rises at the town of Lawson and flows {{convert|20.6|mi}}<ref name=NHD/> generally southward through Ray and Clay counties, through the resort community of Crystal Lake and past the town of Excelsior Springs.<ref name=atlas/>

==History== In 1808, William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition established Fort Osage along the Missouri near the mouth of the Fishing River. The fort became a center of trade among European settlers and Native Americans in the region.

Fishing River was named for the fact that it contained an abundance of fish.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_clay.html |title=Clay County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived) |publisher=The State Historical Society of Missouri |accessdate=19 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624070710/http://shsmo.org/manuscripts/ramsay/ramsay_clay.html |archivedate=24 June 2016 }}</ref>

==Location== {{GeoGroup}} ;Mouth: Confluence with the Missouri River in Ray County, Missouri: {{Coord|39.17528|-94.14078|format=dms|display=inline,title|name=Fishing River mouth|type:river_region:US-MO_source:gnis}}<ref name="GNIS717956">{{cite web |url ={{GNIS 3|717956}} |title =Fishing River |work =Geographic Names Information System |publisher =United States Geological Survey |accessdate =2014-01-19}}</ref> ;Source: Clay County, Missouri: {{Coord|39.31472|-94.49579|format=dms|display=inline|name=Fishing River source|type:river_region:US-MO_source:gnis}}<ref name="GNIS717956" />

== Tributaries == ===Ray County=== *Keeney Creek *Bogart Creek *Shackelford Branch *Lick Creek **Miles Creek

===Clay County=== *East Fork Fishing River **Dry Fork **Gold Mine Creek *Williams Creek *Holmes Creek **Crockett Creek *Clear Creek **Carroll Creek **Muddy Fork ***New Hope Creek **Gilmore Branch *Rock Creek *Brushy Creek

==References== {{Reflist}}

Category:Rivers of Missouri Category:Tributaries of the Missouri River Category:Rivers of Clay County, Missouri Category:Rivers of Ray County, Missouri