Lyre River

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Lyre River
Lyre River just below Lake Crescent

Lyre River just below Lake Crescent

Data
Water code US :  1531478
location Washington (USA)
River system Lyre River
source Lake Crescent , Clallam County
48 ° 5 ′ 40 "  N , 123 ° 48 ′ 17"  W.
Source height 179  m
muzzle at Shadow , Juan-de-Fuca-Straße Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 38 "  N , 123 ° 49 ′ 43"  W 48 ° 9 ′ 38 "  N , 123 ° 49 ′ 43"  W.
Mouth height 0  m
Height difference 179 m
Bottom slope 22 ‰
length 8 kilometers
Catchment area 175 km²
Left tributaries June Creek, Boundary Creek, Susie Creek
Right tributaries Nelson Creek
Situation map

Situation map

The Lyre River is an approximately 8 km long river in the US state of Washington , which rises from Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park and flows into the Juan de Fuca Strait .

The Indians who lived in the area called the river Singing Waters and the first local European, Gonzalo López de Haro , baptized it the name Rio de Cuesta in 1790 . The river was later named the River Lyre after it was mapped by Captain Henry Kellett in 1847 .

Run

The Lyre River flows approximately northwest out of Lake Crescent, first receives the water of June Creek and turns to the north at the point at which Boundary Creek joins from the left. About 4.3 km above the mouth, the river tumbles down the Lyre River Falls , making the river impassable for upward-striving fish. The river continues on its way north, and before it drains into the sea, Susie Creek flows into it from the left and finally Nelson Creek from the right.

Fish species

The first few hundred meters of the river below Lake Crescent are habitat for the subspecies of rainbow trout , Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus , endemic to Lake Crescent and found nowhere else. Cutthroat trout ( Oncorhynchus clarki ) and rainbow trout live below the waterfall .

History of settlement

The Makah tribe regarded the Lyre River as its eastern limit, but the Klallam members also settled along its course.

In the early 1890s a John Smith had asserted Homestead rights in Piedmont ; John Hanson and his wife Mary Laeger Hanson filed their claims near the Lake Crescent outflow. From 1889 to the 1920s there was a settlement called Gettysburg, which was on the eastern side of the estuary and around 1910 had a population of 65 people and a post office. Gettysburg was founded as a logging settlement by a man named Robert Getty.

Today there is a campground operated by the Washington Department of Natural Resources near the estuary .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mueller, Marge. North Puget Sound . The Mountaineers Books, 1995. p. 228
  2. ↑ Hitchman, Robert. Place Names of Washington . Washington State Historical Society, 1985. p. 172
  3. ↑ http://www.nps.gov/archive/olym/lceis/lc8.htm
  4. ↑ Rudnick, Terry. Foghorn Outdoors: Washington Fishing . Avalon Travel Publishing, Emeryville, CA, 1996. p. 96
  5. ↑ http://www.nps.gov/archive/olym/lceis/lc12b.htm
  6. ^ Clallam County Historical Society. Clallam County . Arcadia Publishing, 2003, p. 83