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Overview of Oregon river drainage basins. This is a partial listing of rivers in the state of Oregon, United States. This list of Oregon rivers is organized alphabetically and by tributary structure. The list may also include streams known as creeks, brooks, forks, branches and prongs, as well as sloughs and channels.
High water floods a pathway in Minto Brown Island Park on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. High water from rain caused the level of the Willamette River to reach near action levels and caused trails ...
The atmospheric river of rain that's been hitting Oregon over the past weekend led to massively swollen water flows at Silver Falls State Park. Seen here is Lower South Falls. ... with snow levels ...
The South Yamhill River rises at an elevation of 551 feet (168 m) above sea level and falls 476 feet (145 m) between source and mouth to an elevation of 75 feet (23 m). It begins at the confluence of Hanchet Creek and Kitten Creek in the Siuslaw National Forest of the Northern Oregon Coast Range .
On the other hand, the list includes four low-flow intermittent streams—Dry River, Rattlesnake Creek, Rock Creek, and Dry Creek—that cross parts of the Oregon High Desert. The direction of Oregon stream flow is influenced by four major drainage divides: the Oregon Coast Range on the west, the Cascade Range further inland, the Klamath ...
Unfortunately, for those hoping the rain would build up Oregon’s early-season snowpack, this system is a warm one and snow levels are expected to rocket up as high as 9,000 feet, Bryant said.
The Willamette River (/ w ɪ ˈ l æ m ɪ t / ⓘ wil-AM-it) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is 187 miles (301 km) long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) monitors the flow of the Wilson River at a stream gauge 9.3 miles (15.0 km) from the mouth of the river. The average flow at this gauge is 1,177 cubic feet per second (33.3 m 3 /s). This is from a drainage area of 161 square miles (417 km 2), about 83 percent of the total Wilson River watershed.