Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Snake River is a major river in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States. ... [93]: 635 meaning "the stream/place of the hemp weed".
The Snake River is a 104-mile-long (167 km) [1] tributary of the St. Croix River in east-central Minnesota in the United States. It is one of three streams in Minnesota with this name. [ 2 ] Its name is a translation from the Ojibwa Ginebigo-ziibi , after the Dakota peoples who made their homes along this river.
The Snake River is 91.0 miles (146.5 km) long [3] and with its tributaries drains a 1,324-square-mile (3,430 km 2) area.It flows for its entire length on the old lake bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, mostly in western Marshall County but also through a small portion of northwestern Polk County.
Henrys Fork is a tributary river of the Snake River, approximately 127 miles (204 km) long, [3] in southeastern Idaho in the United States. It is also referred to as the North Fork of the Snake River. Its drainage basin is 3,212 square miles (8,320 km 2), including its main tributary, the Teton River. [4]
The Owyhee River enters the Snake River from the west on the Oregon–Idaho border approximately 5 miles (8 km) south of Nyssa, Oregon, and 2 miles (3 km) south of the mouth of the Boise River. The final stretch of the river, below Owyhee Dam, emerges from the Owyhee Plateau and enters the Snake River Plain.
The Grande Ronde River (/ ɡ r æ n d r ɑː n d / or, less commonly, / ɡ r æ n d r aʊ n d /) is a 210-mile (340 km) long [3] tributary of the Snake River, flowing through northeast Oregon and southeast Washington in the United States.
The formation of a new federal task force focused on salmon in the Columbia River system has been met with concern by supporters of the Snake River hydroelectric dams in Eastern Washington.
Asotin Creek (also known historically as the Asotin River) is a tributary of the Snake River in Asotin County, southeastern Washington.The creek's main stem is 15.5 miles (24.9 km) long, and measured to the head of its longest tributary its length is 33.7 miles (54.2 km). [3]