[5] Muddy Boggy Creek is located in the counties of Pontotoc, Hughes, Coal, Atoka, and Choctaw.

[3] The drainage area is 2,429 square miles (6,290 km2), and includes parts of Coal, Pontotoc, Hughes, Pittsburg, Atoka, Johnson, Bryan, Pushmataha, and Choctaw counties.

[5] Muriel H. Wright wrote that Doctor John Sibley had reported in 1805, that this stream had been called Vazzures by French explorers.

She said this was a corruption of the French word vaseaux, which meant boggy or "miry", because of the deep mud or mire in the channel bottom.

[11] A second ferry operated along the same road, where it crossed Muddy Boggy just below the mouth of McGee Creek.

This may have been the busiest ferry of the three as it was closest to a town, and was along the Bullerfield Overland Mail, an important stagecoach line between Fort Smith, Arkansas and Boggy Depot, Indian Territory.

[13] Bridges across the Muddy Boggy and its forks remained a novelty until a concerted period of highway planning and construction began to accompany the expanding private ownership of automobiles following World War One.

[14] Following World War II, a series of dams was authorized by Congress along the main stem of the Red River of the South and its major tributaries, including the Muddy Boggy.

The dam on Muddy Boggy would have been three miles west of Soper, immediately north of the state highway, and created a lake called the Boswell Reservoir.

Although the dam continues to be authorized, no funds have ever been appropriated for it due to a perceived lack of enthusiasm by local residents.