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The Shoshone River is a 100-mile (160 km) long river in northern Wyoming in the United States. Its headwaters are in the Absaroka Range in Shoshone National Forest. It ends when it runs into the Big Horn River near Lovell, Wyoming. Cities it runs near or through are Cody, Powell, Byron, and Lovell.
Map of the Missouri River watershed The White River flowing into the Missouri River and ... Elk Fork Shoshone River; South Fork Shoshone River; Dry Creek; Shell Creek.
Shoshone River; Slough Creek; Smiths Fork; Snake River; South Fork Hoback River; South Fork Little Laramie River; South Platte River; Sweetwater River; Swift Creek; Tensleep Creek; Tongue River; Wind River; Wolverine Creek; Yellowstone River
In 1957, Mummy Cave was rediscovered by a local resident on the north side of the North Fork Shoshone River, adjacent to U.S. Routes 14/16/20, 15 mi (24 km) east of Yellowstone National Park. [8] Subsequent archeological excavations in the 1960s produced evidence that the cave had been occupied for over 9,000 years. [9]
Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Shoshone River. Topographic relief is significant as the south aspect rises 4,830 feet (1,470 meters) above North Fork Shoshone River in four miles (6.4 km) and the east aspect rises 2,000 feet (610 meters) above Jim Creek in one mile (1.6 km).
Unofficially, Google Maps marks the start of the western part of US 20, along with US 191 and US 287, at the state line near West Yellowstone, Montana. The road parallels the Madison River until a junction with US 89. [4] The three routes then turn south along US 89 (Grand Loop Road), paralleling the Firehole River.
Buffalo Bill Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Shoshone River in the U.S. state of Wyoming.Originally 325-foot (99 m), it was the tallest dam in the world [3] when it opened in 1910; a 25-foot (7.6 m) extension was added in 1992 in one of numerous changes and improvements to the structure and its support facilities, which include two full time power generators and two seasonal ...
The Northern Shoshone and the Bannock, a Northern Paiute group that became culturally associated with the Shoshone, occupied an area stretching from the Snake River Plain east to the Rocky Mountains and south towards the Great Basin, as well as valleys of the upper Salmon River. [89]