Little Minnesota River

Location of the Little Minnesota River

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The Little Minnesota River is a river source of the Minnesota River in the northeast of the U.S. state of South Dakota and western Minnesota. About the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

Run

The Little Minnesota springs on the Coteau des Prairies in Marshall County, South Dakota, close to the city of Veblen and flows southwestward through the Roberts County, where two small tributaries open out, Standfast Creek and Jorgenson River. Even near the border with Minnesota, the river flows only just past the Lake Traverse, which is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay and from which it is separated by a low continental divide. The river reaches the territory of Minnesota at Browns Valley and ends shortly thereafter in the Big Stone Lake, which is drained by the Minnesota River. The area between Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake is known as the Traverse Gap; this was formed by the glacial lakebed River Warren, the Agassiz - the lake bed today the Red River Valley forms - dehydrated towards the end of the last ice age.