Boyer River

The Boyer River at Denison

The Boyer River at Denison

The Boyer River is a 224 km long eastern tributary of the Missouri River to the west of the U.S. state of Iowa. The river was named in the period before the Lewis and Clark expedition to a settler.

The Boyer River is straightened in the greater part of his course and channeled. He springs from the Storm Lake in the southwest of Buena Vista County. He initially flows south into the Sac County. In the south of Sac County it changes direction to southwest. Tributaries of the Boyer River are the East Boyer River and Willow River.

In Pottawattamie County it flows into the Missouri River, on its opposite shore ( in the state of Nebraska) is a nature reserve Boyer Chute National Wildlife Refuge there. This is located about 20 kilometers north of Omaha.

In the 1830s the German naturalist Maximilian zu Wied - Neuwied traveled as part of an expedition, the area around the mouth of the Boyer River, and recorded his experiences in the book "Travels in the Interior of North America 1832-1834 ".