title: Pomme de Terre River (Missouri)
text: The Pomme de Terre River (pronounced pohm de TEHR) is a  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.
  
  Course
  The Pomme de Terre River is formed in Greene County in the Ozarks by the confluence of its short north and south forks, which rise in Webster and Greene counties, respectively.  The river flows generally northward through Dallas, Polk, Hickory and Benton counties, past the town of Hermitage.  In Polk County it collects the short Little Pomme de Terre River, which rises in Greene County and flows generally northwestwardly.  In Hickory County a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dam causes the river to form Pomme de Terre Lake.  It enters the Osage River as an arm of Truman Lake, which is formed by a dam on the Osage.
  
  See also
  List of Missouri rivers
  
  References
  
  Rivers of Missouri
  Rivers of Benton County, Missouri
  Rivers of Dallas County, Missouri
  Rivers of Greene County, Missouri
  Rivers of Hickory County, Missouri
  Rivers of Polk County, Missouri
  Rivers of Webster County, Missouri
  Bodies of water of the Ozarks
  Tributaries of the Missouri River