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Islands and Meanders of the Missouri River

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River Mile(s) Name County(ies) Settlement(s) Notes Coordinates
Nebraska-Missouri Border
551.3-555.7[1] Hamburg Bend[1] Otoe County, Nebraska Four Mile Precinct and Otoe Precinct 40°36′03″N 95°45′31″W
545.9-552.7[2] Lower Hamburg Bend[2] Atchison County, Missouri Buchanan Township IA-MO-NE Tri-Point is in the northern portion of this bend 40°34′32″N 95°46′02″W
544.5-547.2[3] Kansas Bend[3] Otoe County, Nebraska and Nemaha County, Nebraska Otoe Precinct and Peru Precinct 40°31′22″N 95°43′01″W
500 McKissick Island[4][5] Nemaha County, Nebraska McKissick Island Precinct Pene-exclave of Nebraska in Missouri 40°32′23″N 95°40′25″W
500 Peru Bottoms Nemaha County, Nebraska Otoe Precinct and Peru Precinct 40°30′57″N 95°43′24″W
541.6-544[6] Nishabotna Bend or Lower Kansas Bend[6] Nemaha County, Nebraska Peru Precinct 40°29′50″N 95°41′54″W
500 Evans Island[7][5] Atchison County, Missouri Nishnabotna Township and Templeton Township 40°27′00″N 95°39′27″W
536.4-536.9[8] Sonora Bend[8] Nemaha County, Nebraska Brownville Precinct 40°25′06″N 95°39′46″W
533.2-534.5[9] Brownville Bend[9] Nemaha County, Nebraska Brownville, Nebraska 40°22′50″N 95°38′57″W
528.1-531.4[10] Langdon Bend[10] Nemaha County, Nebraska Nemaha Precinct 40°20′26″N 95°37′52″W
525.6-527.5[11] Aspinwall Bend[11] Atchison County, Missouri Benton Township 40°19′05″N 95°38′24″W
500 Hoot Bowl Bend Atchison County, Missouri Benton Township 40°18′55″N 95°36′52″W
500 Morgan Island[12][13] Nemaha County, Nebraska Nemaha Precinct 40°18′17″N 95°36′28″W
516.1-520.6[14] Deroin Bend[14] or Hemmes Bend[15] Atchison County, Missouri and Holt County, Missouri Clark Township and Lincoln Township 40°15′36″N 95°32′22″W
500 Lincoln Bend[16][17] Nemaha County, Nebraska Nemaha Precinct 0°N 0°E
516.9-519.1[18] Indian Cave Bend[18] Nemaha County, Nebraska and Richardson County, Nebraska Barada Precinct and Nemaha Precinct 40°15′12″N 95°32′11″W
505.9-507.1[19] Cottier Bend[19] or Arago Island[15] Richardson County, Nebraska Arago Precinct 40°08′52″N 95°26′21″W
498.1-502.3 Rush Bottom Bend[15] or Winnebago Bar[15] Holt County, Missouri and Richardson County, Nebraska Bigelow Township and Minton Township Part is a pene-exclave of Nebraska in Missouri 40°05′30″N 95°24′26″W
500 Nemaha Bends[20] or Tarkio Bend[15] Richardson County, Nebraska Rulo Precinct Part of the Iowa Reservation 40°01′53″N 95°21′17″W
500 Missouri Bend[21] or Squaw Bend[15] Richardson County, Nebraska Rulo Precinct KS-MO-NE Tri-Point is in the southern portion of this bend 40°00′24″N 95°18′37″W
Kansas-Missouri Border
Rush Island[15] Doniphan County, Kansas Iowa Township
477.1-481.5[22] Wolf Creek Bend[22] Holt County, Missouri Forest Township and Lewis Township 39°54′34″N 95°11′39″W
Charleston Bend[15] Doniphan County, Kansas Center Township
463.9-467.4[23] Burr Oak Bottom[24][5] or Dallas Bend[15] or Solomons Island[15] Doniphan County, Kansas Burr Oak Township 39°53′21″N 95°01′20″W
500 Nodaway Island[15] Andrew County, Missouri Nodaway, Missouri 39°54′09″N 94°57′08″W
456.3-460[25] Worthwine Island[25] or Gray Back Island[15] Andrew County, Missouri Lincoln Township 39°51′16″N 94°56′16″W
500 Gladden Bottom[26][5] Doniphan County, Kansas Burr Oak Township and Washington Township 39°49′00″N 94°54′01″W
500 Bon-Ton Bend (historical)[27][15] Doniphan County, Kansas Washington Township Was the north side of French Bottoms before the river shifted 0°N 0°E
500 French Bottom[28][5] or Belmont Bend (historical)[29][15] or Lover's Island (historical)[30] Doniphan County, Kansas Washington Township Pene-exclave of Missouri in Kansas, Rosecrans Memorial Airport is situated here. 39°46′36″N 94°54′22″W
500 Elwood Bend (historical)[31] Doniphan County, Kansas Elwood, Kansas Was the south side of French Bottoms before the river shifted 39°45′44″N 94°53′56″W
441.6-449.5[32] Elwood Bottoms[32] Doniphan County, Kansas Elwood, Kansas 39°43′40″N 94°53′50″W
500 Doniphan Bend[33] Buchanan County, Missouri 39°37′11″N 95°03′09″W
424-428.3[34] Rushville Bend[35][5] or Benedictine Bottoms[34] Atchison County, Kansas 39°34′54″N 95°03′44″W
500 McQueen Bend[36][5] Buchanan County, Missouri 39°34′43″N 95°05′48″W
500 Atchison Bend[37][15] Buchanan County, Missouri 39°33′35″N 95°06′39″W
414.9-419.5[38] Dalbey Bottoms[38] Atchison County, Kansas 39°29′56″N 95°03′26″W
408.5-409.1[39] Oak Mills Bend[5][39] or Cow Island[40][15] Leavenworth County, Kansas 39°24′59″N 94°58′09″W
500 Harpst Island[41][42][43] or Iatan Bend[44] Platte County, Missouri 39°25′31″N 94°57′44″W
404.2-406.2[45] Kickapoo Island[46][5][40][47] Platte County, Missouri 39°23′30″N 94°55′01″W
403-403.3[48] Weston Bend[49][5] Platte County, Missouri 39°23′33″N 94°53′37″W
500 Leavenworth Island[50][40][43][47] Platte County, Missouri Formerly a true river island. 39°18′48″N 94°53′45″W
500 Stigers Island[51][43]> or Delaware Bend[52] or Spar Island[40][47] Leavenworth County, Kansas 39°15′10″N 94°51′01″W
500 Pope Bend[53][5] or Coney Island[47] or Donigan Island[47] Platte County, Missouri 39°12′32″N 94°49′13″W
500 Diamond Island[42][40] or Weavers Bend[54] Leavenworth County, Kansas and Wyandotte County, Kansas 39°10′10″N 94°44′19″W
500 Pomeroy Bend[55][5] Platte County, Missouri 39°10′35″N 94°45′29″W
500 Little Platte Bend[56][57] Platte County, Missouri 39°10′48″N 94°41′50″W
500 Parkville Bend[58][57] Wyandotte County, Kansas 39°10′46″N 94°39′54″W
500 Quindaro Bend[59][5] Platte County, Missouri 39°09′23″N 94°39′19″W
500 Goose Island[60][42] or Kaw Bend[61] or Kaw River Bend[57] Wyandotte County, Kansas Formerly a true river island;[62] became meander in the 1910s.[63] 39°08′40″N 94°35′31″W
500 Kansas River Bend[64] Platte County, Missouri 39°06′55″N 94°36′30″W
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