Yellow Medicine River
| Yellow Medicine River | |
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 The Yellow Medicine River in Minnesota Falls Township in 2007
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| Country | United States |
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| State | Minnesota |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | North Branch Yellow Medicine River, Spring Creek |
| - right | South Branch Yellow Medicine River |
| Source | Lake Shaokatan |
| - location | Shaokatan Township, Lincoln County |
| - elevation | 1,776 ft (541 m) |
| - coordinates | 44°24′41″N 96°21′05″W / 44.41139°N 96.35139°W |
| Mouth | Minnesota River |
| - location | Upper Sioux Agency State Park, Yellow Medicine County |
| - elevation | 869 ft (265 m) |
| - coordinates | 44°44′21″N 95°25′43″W / 44.73917°N 95.42861°WCoordinates: 44°44′21″N 95°25′43″W / 44.73917°N 95.42861°W |
| Length | 107.2 mi (173 km) |
| Basin | 665 sq mi (1,722 km2) |
| Discharge | for near Granite Falls |
| - average | 142 cu ft/s (4 m3/s) |
| - max | 17,200 cu ft/s (487 m3/s) |
| - min | 0 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
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The Yellow Medicine River is a tributary of the Minnesota River, 107 miles (173 km) long, in southwestern Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining an area of 665 square miles (1,722 km²) in an agricultural region. Its name is a translation of the Dakota name for the river, pajutazee, ("huta" meaning "root," "zi" meaning "yellow," and "kapi" meaning "they dig"),
The Yellow Medicine River issues from Lake Shaokatan in Shaokatan Township in western Lincoln County, approximately six miles (10 km) southwest of Ivanhoe, on the Coteau des Prairies, a morainic plateau dividing the Mississippi and Missouri River watersheds. It flows initially northeastwardly as an intermittent stream, past Ivanhoe. The stream flows off the Coteau in northeastern Lincoln County, dropping 250 feet (75 m) in five miles (8 km), and turns east-northeastwardly, following a generally treeless course on till plains through northern Lyon County and eastern Yellow Medicine County, past Hanley Falls. It flows into the Minnesota River in Upper Sioux Agency State Park in Sioux Agency Township, approximately eight miles (13 km) southeast of Granite Falls, after dropping 85 feet (30 m) in its final ten miles (15 km) in the Minnesota River valley.
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