North River
The North River is an 82-mile-long river in northeastern Missouri, the United States. It rises in Knox County at and flows southeast and east through Shelby and Marion counties, emptying into the Mississippi River at between West Quincy and Hannibal.- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Missouri, United States
- Also known as: “Jeffreon River”, “North Fork North River”, “North Fork of North River”, and “North Two Rivers”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quincy and Palmyra.
Quincy
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Quincy is a small city of 40,000 in Adams County, Western Illinois. It is near the westernmost point in Illinois on the Mississippi River, and is home to some of the most impressive historic architecture in the region.
Palmyra
Town
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Palmyra is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3,613 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area. Palmyra is situated 6 miles southwest of North River.
North River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Marion, Missouri, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Welsh—“North River” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “North”
- Cebuano: “North River (suba sa Tinipong Bansa, Missouri)”
- Cebuano: “North River”
- French: “rivière North”
- French: “Rivière North”
- Venetian: “North”
- Vietnamese: “sông Bắc”
- Vietnamese: “sông North”
- Welsh: “Afon North (Missouri)”
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