Wild Rice River (North Dakota)

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Wild Rice River
The catchment area of ​​the Red River of the North, both Wild Rice Rivers are highlighted

The catchment area of ​​the Red River of the North , both Wild Rice Rivers are highlighted

Data
Water code US :  1035247
location North Dakota (USA)
River system Nelson River
Drain over Red River of the North  → Winnipeg Lake  → Nelson River  → Hudson Bay
source in Brampton Township , Sargent County
46 ° 0 ′ 56 ″  N , 97 ° 47 ′ 8 ″  W
Source height 391  m
muzzle Red River of the North at Frontier , Cass County Coordinates: 46 ° 45 '24 "  N , 96 ° 47' 24"  W 46 ° 45 '24 "  N , 96 ° 47' 24"  W.
Mouth height 267  m
Height difference 124 m
Bottom slope 0.32 ‰
length 390 km
Catchment area 5783 km²
Drain MQ
 3 m³ / s
The Wild Rice River near Abercrombie, North Dakota (2007).

The Wild Rice River near Abercrombie, North Dakota (2007).

The Wild Rice River is about 390 kilometers long winding northward flowing left tributary of the Red River of the North in the southeast of the US state North Dakota .

Its tributaries also drain a small portion of northern South Dakota . Over the Red River, Lake Winnipeg and Nelson River , it is part of the Hudson Bay catchment area and drains an area of ​​5783 km² in the Red River Valley region . It is one of two tributaries of the Red River of the North with that name; the other is the Wild Rice River in Minnesota . Despite its length, it is a relatively small river with an annual average flow rate of only around 3 m³ / s.

Run

The river rises as a discontinuous body of water in Brampton Township , about 10 km south of Cogswell in the southeast of Sargent County and initially flows extremely meandering through this and Richland Counties , through the Tewaukon Reservation and the cities of Cayuga , Mantador and Great Bend where it finally swings north. West of Wahpeton he begins a parallel course to the Red River, which he follows up to its confluence in Cass County , about five kilometers south of Frontier at a distance of five to eleven kilometers in sharp turns.

Flow rate

The United States Geological Survey operates a gauge about three miles northwest of Abercrombie . Between 1932 and 2005 the long-term runoff there was an annual average of around 3 m³ / s. The highest value was observed on April 11, 1969 with 270 m³ / s.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ USGS - Geographic Names Information System - Wild Rice River (ND)
  2. ↑ National Assessment Database: Assessment Data for the State of North Dakota Year 2004 . United States Environmental Protection Agency . S. Western Wild Rice Watershed . Retrieved on June 15, 2007.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Sum of the river segments, with the upper reaches of the Wild Rice Creek estimated at about ten miles based on the information in the DeLorme and the coordinates in the GNIS and rounded to 390 kilometers.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / iaspub.epa.gov  
  3. ↑ Wild Rice River (North Dakota) in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
  4. ^ Red River of the North, Reconnaissance Report: Wild Rice River . Defense Technical Information Center, United States Department of Defense . December 1980. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved June 15, 2007.
  5. ^ North Dakota Atlas & Gazetteer . DeLorme , Yarmouth, Me. 1999, ISBN 0-89933-343-5 , pp. 52-53, 63-64.
  6. ↑ SM Robinson, RF Lundgren, BA Sether, SW Norbeck, JM Lambrecht: Water Resources Data North Dakota Water Year 2005, Volume 1 Surface Water. (PDF; 4.1 MB) United States Geological Survey . Pp. 44-45. Retrieved June 15, 2007.