Wild Rice River (Minnesota)

The catchment area of ​​the Red River of the North, both Wild Rice River are highlighted

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The Wild Rice River is a right tributary of the Red River of the North in the northwest of the U.S. state of Minnesota. It is 257 km long. About the Red River, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, it is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay. He is one of two tributaries of the Red River of the North with this name; the other is the Wild Rice River in North Dakota.

Course

The Wild Rice River rises in the Mud Lake in Clearwater County and follows a generally westerly course through the County Mahnomen and Norman, by the White Earth Indian Reservation, passing the towns of Mahnomen, Twin Valley and Hendrum and about south of Ada, where the nearby headwaters of Marsh River at high water sometimes a tributary of the Red River is. In its lower course through the Red River Valley sections of its course have been straightened and channelized.

Inflows

The largest tributaries of the Wild Rice River are the White Earth River, which flows into the near Mahnomen and South Branch Wild Rice River to the mouth in the lower reaches in Norman County (the source is Ogema in the northwest of Becker County and the flow always goes to the west by the counties of Clay and Norman and passes through the city Ulen ).