Niobrara River

Course of the Niobrara River

Niobrara State Park Bridge

The Niobrara River is a tributary of the Missouri River, about 692 km long and flows through the current U.S. states of Wyoming and Nebraska. The river drains one of the most barren parts of the Great Plains and has a relatively low flow rate.

River

The Niobrara River rises in the High Plains of eastern Wyoming, the Niobrara County. Then it flows east to Lusk and further to the southeast to northwest Nebraska. Then it flows southeast through the Pine Ridge Country from the Sioux country and then east through the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument by Marsland and through the Box Butte Reservoir. It flows east across northern Nebraska, near the northern corner of the Sand Hills to Valentine. Then he joins about 21 km southwest of Valentine with the Snake River. In north-central Nebraska, he then combines with the Keya Paha River about 10 km west of Butte. Then it flows north-west of Niobrara in northern Knox County in Missouri. Two sections of the Niobrara River in central Nebraska have been set as the Niobrara National Scenic River, and thus are under special Schutz.Zu the protected areas on the river also includes the Niobrara Valley Preserve.

The lower Niobrara Valley is the ancestral homeland of the Ponca, a tribe of Native Americans. Between 1861 and 1882, the piece of the Niobrara River from the mouth of the Keya Paha marked up to its confluence with the Missouri River the border between Nebraska and the Dakota Territory.

Trivia

In the Hexalogie The Sons of the Great Bear, the Niobrara River in the volumes The road to exile ( Volume 2 ) and the young chief ( Band 5) the scene of central events there.