White River (Missouri River)
| White River | ||
 White River catchment area |
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| Data | ||
| Water code | US : 1267248 | |
| location | Nebraska , South Dakota (USA) | |
| River system | Mississippi River | |
| Drain over | Missouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico | |
| source |
Pine Ridge , near Harrison, 42 ° 41 ′ 10 " N , 103 ° 50 ′ 14" W. |
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| Source height | 1462 m | |
| muzzle | Missouri River, near Chamberlain Coordinates: 43 ° 42 ′ 50 " N , 99 ° 28 ′ 1" W 43 ° 42 ′ 50 " N , 99 ° 28 ′ 1" W |
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| Mouth height | 488 m | |
| Height difference | 974 m | |
| Bottom slope | 1.2 ‰ | |
| length | 816 km | |
| Catchment area | 26,400 km² | |
| Outflow at the Oacoma gauge |
MQ |
16.3 m³ / s |
| Right tributaries |
Wounded Knee Creek , Little White River |
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 near Crawford |
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The White River ( English for "White River") is a 816 km long right tributary of the Missouri River in the US states of Nebraska and South Dakota .
The name of the river is derived from the white-gray color of the water - a result of the eroded sand, clay and volcanic ash that the river carries with it. The catchment area is around 20,600 km². The river flows through a sparsely populated region of hills, plateaus and badlands .
The White River originates in northwestern Nebraska, in the Pine Ridge - Escarpment north of Harrison , at an altitude of 1462 m . It flows in a south-easterly, later in a north-easterly direction past Fort Robinson and north of Crawford . It crosses the border into South Dakota and flows through the Pine Ridge Reservation in a northerly direction. The Wounded Knee Creek then flows into the White River. Then this flows past the Badlands National Park . On the northern edge of the reserve, the White River swings east-northeast and southeast, forming the northern limit of the reserve and the southern limit of the Buffalo Gap National Grassland . About 15 miles south of Murdo , the Little White River meets the White River. The White River then flows in an easterly direction and ends in the Missouri River , which is dammed up to Lake Francis Case , about 15 miles southwest of Chamberlain .
literature
- Benke, Arthur C., ed., And Cushing, Colbert E., ed .; Galat, David L .; Berry, Charles R., Jr .; Peters, Edward J., and White, Robert G. (2005). "Chapter 10: Missouri River Basin" in Rivers of North America . Burlington, Massachusetts: Elsevier Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-088253-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ USGS Water-Data Report White River near Oacoma, SD (PDF; 124 kB)