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Richmond serves as the northern terminus for State Highway 22, with the route ending when it connects with State Highway 23. [14] [15] Richmond is located about 15 miles west of Interstate 94 following State Highway 23. [14] [16] Glacial Lakes State Trail also runs through Richmond and connects it through different towns all the way to Willmar ...
The river continues southeast past Melrose and Richmond, then northeast through Cedar Island Lake and Zumwalde Lake, past Cold Spring and Waite Park, and discharges in to the Mississippi River 2 miles (3 km) north of St. Cloud. At St. Cloud, MN, the river has a mean annual discharge of 342 cubic feet per second (9.7 m 3 /s). [5]
This is a list of lakes of Minnesota.Although promoted as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", Minnesota has 11,842 lakes of 10 acres (4.05 ha) or more. [1] The 1968 state survey found 15,291 lake basins, of which 3,257 were dry. [2]
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.
Lake Florence Dam, Stewartville, Minnesota – Root River (built 1910s, damaged 1993, removed 1994 - Lake Florence no longer exists) [14] Meeker Island Lock and Dam – Mississippi River (built 1907, became obsolete and removed 1920) [17] Mill Pond Dam, Appleton, Minnesota – Pomme de Terre River (removed after being damaged in a 1997 flood) [18]
Water flows to the north in the Hudson Bay/Arctic drainage basin (3,861,400 sq mi (10,001,000 km 2)), which includes the Red River of the North drainage basin (111,004 sq mi (287,500 km 2)) and Lake of the Woods drainage basin (13,805 sq mi (35,750 km 2))—of which 7,285 sq mi (18,870 km 2) is in Minnesota.
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The Saint Louis River (abbreviated St. Louis River) is a river in the U.S. states of Minnesota and Wisconsin that flows into Lake Superior. The largest U.S. river to flow into the lake, it is 192 miles (309 km) in length [1] and starts 13 miles (21 km) east of Hoyt Lakes, Minnesota. The river's watershed covers 3,634 square miles (9,410 km 2).