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Minnesota River, Mankato, Minnesota. The Minnesota River (Dakota: Mnísota Wakpá) is a tributary of the Mississippi River, approximately 332 miles (534 km) long, in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It drains a watershed of 14,751 square miles (38,200 km 2) in Minnesota and about 2,000 sq mi (5,200 km 2) in South Dakota and Iowa.
Watersheds [1] of Minnesota. Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for 69,000 miles (111,000 km). The Mississippi River begins its journey from its headwaters at Lake Itasca and crosses the Iowa border 680 mi (1,094 km) downstream.
By volume, it is the Minnesota River's largest tributary, accounting for 46% of the Minnesota's flow at the rivers' confluence in Mankato. [6] Via the Minnesota River, the Blue Earth River is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 3,486 square miles (9,030 km 2) in an agricultural region.
The National Weather Service also issued a flood warning for the Minnesota River at Morton in Renville County. The warning noted that other locations on the Minnesota River, including at ...
A house that was teetering on the edge of an eroding riverbank near a Minnesota dam collapsed into the river in the latest jarring example of extreme weather gripping the upper Midwest. Video ...
Minnesota State University, Mankato: 1,300 4.94% 4 Walmart Distribution Center 525 1.99% 5 Blue Earth County: 491 1.86% 6 Mankato Clinic 425 1.61% 7 Mankato Rehabilitation Center Inc. Industrial Operation 375 1.42% 8 Compeer Financial 362 1.37% 9 Johnson Outdoors-Mankato 360 1.37% 10 The City of Mankato 313 1.19% — Total employers: 7,574: 28.75%
The Watonwan River, which runs through the city, flows northwest and empties into the Blue Earth River upstream from the Rapidan Dam, which nearly failed under the force of the flood.
Blue Earth County is a county in the state of Minnesota. As of the 2020 census, the population was 69,112. [2] Its county seat is Mankato. [3] The county is named for the Blue Earth River and for the deposits of blue-green clay once evident along the banks of the Blue Earth River. Blue Earth County is part of the Mankato-North Mankato ...