Bois de Sioux River

Catchment area of ​​the Red River of the North

The Bois de Sioux River below the dam at Lake Traverse. Roberts County, South Dakota is to the left, and Traverse County, Minnesota right in the picture.

Bois de Sioux River below the dam at Mud Lake in Traverse County. The river is straightened in this section and flows so slightly east of the border between Minnesota and South Dakota

The Bois de Sioux River is a river which drains the Lake Traverse, the southernmost waters of the watershed of Hudson Bay.

It is a tributary of the Red River of the North, and forms part of the border between the U.S. states of Minnesota and North Dakota and South Dakota. The river has a length of about 48 kilometers.

Run

The river flows starting at a dam on the United States Army Corps of Engineers at the northern end of Lake Traverse ( ⊙ 45.769276785556-96.639127166944 ) north and then flows through the Mud Lake. Below this lake the river is channeled and straightened, so that its course deviates from the historical border of the states of Minnesota and South Dakota. It flows past the White Rock before it forms together with the Otter Tail River at Wahpeton, ND and Breckenridge, MN to Red River of the North ( ⊙ 46.264129421944-96.598970581111 ).

Inflows

The two largest tributaries of the Bois de Sioux are the Must Inca River, which flows into Lake Traverse and the Rabbit River, south of Breckenridge; both tributaries have their origin in Minnesota.

Swell

Waters, Thomas F. (1977). The Streams and Rivers of Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-0960-8.