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The Platte River is formed in western Nebraska east of the city of North Platte, Nebraska by the confluence of the North Platte and the South Platte Rivers, which both arise from snowmelt in the eastern Rockies east of the Continental Divide.
Platte River, river of Nebraska, U.S., formed at the city of North Platte by the confluence of the North Platte and South Platte rivers. The Platte proper is 310 miles (500 km) long, but measured from its source stream, Grizzly Creek in Colorado (via the North Platte River), the system has a length.
The North Platte River is a major tributary of the Platte River and is approximately 716 miles (1,152 km) long, counting its many curves. [4] In a straight line, it travels about 550 miles (890 km), along its course through the U.S. states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.
Platte River State Park offers guided horseback rides, fishing and paddle boating on Jenny Newman Lake, concessions, and a covered picnic shelter that is available for rental. The Nature Center is located in the lower level of Mallet Lodge.
The Platte River is a river in the Great Plains. It stretches 310 miles making it the largest river in Nebraska. Mapcarta, the open map.
Platte River is a river in Gothenburg, NE in Great Plains, Camp Ashland. View a map of this area and more on Natural Atlas.
Water Planning Interactive Map. Other Images. Nebraska Integrated Management Planning Areas. Nebraska Basin-Wide Planning Areas. Research Model and Study Areas. Delineation of 2005 Land Use Patterns. Nebraska River Basins. Blue River Basin. Lower Platte River Basin. Missouri River Tributaries Basin. Nemaha River Basin. Niobrara River Basin.
The Platte River has three main stretches from the Rocky Mountains to North Platte, Nebraska from there to Columbus, Nebraska and the onto the Missouri River. It starts from ice melt in the mountains and then follows down to the plains of Nebraska where it is used to irrigate farmland.
North Platte River, one of the two main arms of the Platte River, rising in north-central Colorado, U.S. It rises in several headstreams in the Medicine Bow and Park ranges and the Rabbit Ears Range and flows north into Wyoming, bends east-southeast at Casper, and continues into western Nebraska.
The Platte River Program—Geospatial Data Sets. Required GIS data layers as determined by Platte River stakeholders. Base Cartographic Data. Color-infared Digital Orthophotos. Digital Orthophoto Quadrangles - (DOQ) info. Digital Elevation Models - (DEM) info.