Niobrara River
| Niobrara River | ||
 Course of the Niobrara River |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | US : 835960 | |
| location | Wyoming , Nebraska (USA) | |
| River system | Mississippi River | |
| Drain over | Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico | |
| source | in eastern Wyoming 42 ° 49 ′ 15 ″ N , 104 ° 38 ′ 50 ″ W |
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| Source height | 1676 m | |
| muzzle | in the Missouri River at Niobrara, NE Coordinates: 42 ° 46 '18 " N , 98 ° 2' 46" W, 42 ° 46 '18 " N , 98 ° 2' 46" W. |
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| Mouth height | 369 m | |
| Height difference | 1307 m | |
| Bottom slope | 1.9 ‰ | |
| length | 692 km | |
| Runoff at Verdel Gauge, Nebraska |
NNQ MQ MHQ |
3 m³ / s 49 m³ / s 1107 m³ / s |
| Left tributaries | Keya Paha River | |
| Reservoirs flowed through | Box butte reservoir | |
| National Wild and Scenic River | ||
 Niobrara State Park Bridge |
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The Niobrara River is a tributary of the Missouri River , approximately 692 km long, and flows through the current US states of Wyoming and Nebraska . The river drains one of the most barren stretches of the Great Plains and has a comparatively slow flow rate.
River course
The Niobrara River has its source in the High Plains of eastern Wyoming, in Niobrara County . It then flows in an easterly direction to Lusk and further south-east into northwest Nebraska. It then flows southeast over the Pine Ridge Country from the Sioux Country and then east through the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument to Marsland and through the Box Butte Reservoir . It flows east over northern Nebraska, near the northern corner of the Sandhills to Valentine . Then it joins the Snake River about 13 miles southwest of Valentine. In the central north of Nebraska it then unites with the Keya Paha River about 10 km west of Butte . It then flows into the Missouri northwest of Niobrara in northern Knox County . Two sections of the Niobrara River in central Nebraska have been designated as the Niobrara National Scenic River and are therefore under special protection. The Niobrara Valley Preserve is one of the river's protected areas .
The lower Niobrara Valley is the ancestral home of the Ponca , a tribe of Native Americans. Between 1861 and 1882, the piece of the Niobrara River marked the boundary between Nebraska and the Dakota Territory from the mouth of the Keya Paha to its confluence with the Missouri .
Trivia
In the hexalogy The Sons of the Great Bear by Lieselotte Welskopf-Henrich , the Niobrara River is the scene of central events in the volumes The Path to Exile (Volume 2) and The Young Chief (Volume 5).
Individual evidence
- ^ Niobrara River in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
- ↑ National Wild & Scenic Rivers - Niobrara River ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
