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The Salt River is formed by the confluence of the White River and the Black River in the White Mountains of eastern Gila County. The White and Black rivers, and other tributaries of the upper Salt River, drain the region between the Mogollon Rim in the north and the Natanes Mountains and Natanes Plateau to the east and south.
Map of the Gila River watershed.. The Salt River Valley is an extensive valley on the Salt River in central Arizona, which contains the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.. Although this geographic term still identifies the area, the name "Valley of the Sun" popularly replaced the usage starting in the early 1930s for purposes of boosterism.
Salt River is a populated place situated in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. [2] It has an estimated elevation of 1,220 feet (370 m) above sea level. It is located on the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community. Salt River is named after the Salt River on the north bank of which it is situated, east of Phoenix and near Lehi.
The Salt River is a formerly navigable hanging channel of the Eel River which flowed about 9 miles (14 km) from near Fortuna and Waddington, California, to the estuary at the Pacific Ocean, until siltation from logging and agricultural practices essentially closed the channel. It was historically an important navigation route until the early ...
Map of Hohokam and neighboring cultures in circa 1350. Hohokam society is primarily associated with the Gila and lower Salt River drainages [9] in the Phoenix basin.. The Phoenix Basin was the Hohokam Core Area, and the Hohokam Periphery were adjacent areas where the Hohokam culture extended.
The Verde River and the Salt River converge on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. The Salt River flows into the Gila River west of Phoenix. In 1984, the United States Congress designated 40.5 miles (65.2 km) of the Verde River as Wild and Scenic through the National Wild and Scenic River program. [4]
The Salt River is a 150-mile-long (240 km) [2] river in the U.S. state of Kentucky that drains 2,920 square miles (7,600 km 2). It begins near Parksville, Kentucky , rising from the north slope of Persimmon Knob south of KY 300 between Alum Springs and Wilsonville, and ends at the Ohio River near West Point .
The Greys River, draining part of the eastern side of the Salt River Range, joins the Snake River just a few miles east of the mouth of the Salt River. About halfway along its course, the Salt River passes through a section known as the "Narrows", where it cuts between two ridges that divide Star Valley into an upper and lower valleys.