Cannonball River

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Cannonball River
Missouri river system, turquoise: Cannonball River

Missouri river system, turquoise: Cannonball River

Data
Water code US1035898
location North Dakota , USA
River system Mississippi River
Drain over Missouri  → Mississippi  → Gulf of Mexico
source in Little Missouri National Grassland
46 ° 28 ′ 12 ″  N , 103 ° 12 ′ 24 ″  W
muzzle near Cannon Ball in Lake Oahe Coordinates: 46 ° 25 ′ 45 "  N , 100 ° 35 ′ 21"  W 46 ° 25 ′ 45 "  N , 100 ° 35 ′ 21"  W
Mouth height 491  m

length 217 km
Cannonball River North Dakota

Cannonball River North Dakota

The Cannonball River is a 217-kilometer tributary of the Missouri River in the southwest of the US state North Dakota .

It rises in Little Missouri National Grassland , in the Badlands north of Amidon in Slope County . It flows in an east-southeast direction past New England , Mott and Burt . Cedar Creek flows into it about 15 miles southwest of Shields . Its course then changes in a northeast direction and the river then forms the northern boundary of Sioux County and the Standing Rock Reservation and the southern boundary of Grant County and Morten Counties, respectively . The Cannonball River flows into the Missouri in Lake Oahe near Cannon Ball . The name Cannonball comes from the large round stones that could be found at the mouth of the Missouri. The first white visitors thought they were cannonballs. Today the stones are no longer visible because the reservoir has flooded the mouth of the river. The Cannonball River got international fame through the protests of the Sioux indigenous people against a planned pipeline project which should cross under the river. Standing Rock Reservation Government and the tribe are leading protests against a pipeline to be run beneath the Missouri near Cannonball. The tribe also complains that the construction work destroyed important Sioux tombs. The Sioux fear that the pipeline planned by the Energy Transfer Plants company could contaminate the water in the reserve and make the reserve uninhabitable if it breaks. According to the reservation government, the pipeline project is only 500 meters past the reservation boundary.

See also

supporting documents

  1. ^ A b Cannonball River ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved April 30, 2016.
  2. Standing Rock protests: this is only the beginning The Cannonball river used to meet the Missouri in such a way that their turbulent waters turned out big round stones - which white people saw as cannonballs, thus the name - but now the smaller river sinks quietly into the lake, and the stones are gone and so are the forces that made them.
  3. www.prairiepublic.org The Cannonball River was, of course, named after the interesting cannonball-like concretions that may be found along the river.
  4. ^ Spiegel Online Violent protest against the pipeline