Little Rock River
| Little Rock River | |
|---|---|
  Mouth of the Little Rock River | |
| Location | |
| Country | US |
| State | Iowa, Minnesota |
| District | Lyon County, Iowa, Osceola County, Iowa, Nobles County, Minnesota |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 43°36′55″N 95°41′24″W / 43.61528°N 95.69000°W[1] |
| Mouth | Rock River |
• location | Doon, Iowa, US |
• coordinates | 43°15′51″N 96°14′48″W / 43.26417°N 96.24667°W[1] |
• elevation | 1,250[1] ft (380 m) |
The Little Rock River is a tributary of the Rock River, 74.5 miles (119.9 km) long,[2] in southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. Via the Rock, Big Sioux and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
It has also been known as "Little Rock Creek".[1]
Course
The Little Rock River rises in Nobles County, Minnesota, 3 miles (5 km) west of the town of Worthington, and flows generally southwestwardly through Osceola and Lyon counties in Iowa, where it passes the towns of Little Rock and George. It flows into the Rock River about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Doon.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Rock River
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 30, 2011
- ^ Doon, Iowa, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1971
- Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- DeLorme (1998). Iowa Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-214-5.
- DeLorme (1994). Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-222-6.