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The Great Lakes water resource region is one of 21 major geographic areas, or regions, in the first level of classification used by the United States Geological Survey to divide and sub-divide the United States into successively smaller hydrologic units. These geographic areas contain either the drainage area of a major river, or the combined ...
Contents. Hydrologic unit system (United States) For the use of hydrologists, ecologists, and water-resource managers in the study of surface water flows in the United States, the United States Geological Survey created a hierarchical system of hydrologic units. Originally a four-tier system divided into regions, sub-regions, accounting units ...
Hydrological code. A hydrological code or hydrologic unit code is a sequence of numbers or letters (a geocode) that identify a hydrological unit or feature, such as a river, river reach, lake, or area like a drainage basin (also called watershed in North America) or catchment. One system, developed by Arthur Newell Strahler, known as the ...
Grindstone River. The Grindstone River is a 6.7-mile-long (10.8 km) [1] river of Minnesota, a tributary of the Kettle River. Its name is derived either from the Dakota Iŋswú watpá (Small Stones River) [2] or from the Ojibwe Zhiigwanaabikokaa-ziibi (River abundant with grind stones). [3] Sandstone taken from near the river was used to produce ...
Baptism River. The Baptism River is an 8.8-mile-long (14.2 km) [4] river of the U.S. state of Minnesota. The river source is the confluence of the East Branch Baptism River and the West Branch Baptism River just south of the community of Finland. [1]
The Kadunce River is an 8.5-mile-long (13.7 km) stream in northeastern Minnesota, the United States, ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974)
47.7682244°N 90.2612124°W. / 47.7682244; -90.2612124. [1] The Devil Track River is an 8.7-mile-long (14.0 km) [2] river in northeastern Minnesota, the United States. It begins at the outlet of Devil Track Lake and flows southeast to Lake Superior east of Croftville . Devil Track River is a loose translation of the Ojibwe-language name.
Twelvemile Creek is a 55.1-mile-long (88.7 km) [1] tributary of the Mustinka River of Minnesota in the United States. It rises in Stevens County and flows northwest before joining the Mustinka in Traverse County. [2] Via the Mustinka and Bois de Sioux rivers, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg, and the Nelson River, it is part of the ...