The Medicine Bow River is a 167-mile-long (269 km)[1] tributary of the North Platte River, in southern Wyoming in the United States.
| Medicine Bow River | |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Snowy Range, Carbon County, Wyoming |
| Mouth | |
• location | Seminoe Reservoir, Carbon County, Wyoming |
• elevation | 6,360 feet (1,940 m) |
| Length | 167 miles (269 km) |
| Basin size | 2,338 square miles (6,060 km2) |
Description
editIt rises in the Snowy Range, flowing out of the North Gap Lake, in southeastern Carbon County. It flows north, past Elk Mountain, then northeast, then northwest past the town of Medicine Bow and between the Shirley Mountains to the north and the Medicine Bow Mountains to the south. Near the town of Medicine Bow the Medicine Bow River is joined by its two largest tributaries, Rock Creek and the Little Medicine Bow River. It joins the North Platte in the Seminoe Reservoir, with the lower 10 miles (16 km) of the river forming an arm of the reservoir.
Discharge statistics
edit| Statistic | Time period | Discharge |
|---|---|---|
| Annual mean discharge | Year | 16.0cf/s[2] |
| Month with highest mean discharge | May | 83.5cf/s[2] |
| Month with lowest mean discharge | September | 1.61cf/s[2] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 21, 2011
- ^ a b c "USGS Water-Year Summary for Site USGS 06634060". nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2024-02-23.
External links
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