Middle River (Iowa)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Middle River is a tributary of the Des Moines River in south-central Iowa in the United States. It is Script error: No such module "convert". long[1] and drains an area of Script error: No such module "convert"..[2] Via the Des Moines River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
The Middle River rises in southwestern Guthrie County and initially flows southeastwardly through Adair County, then eastwardly through Madison County, then east-northeastwardly through Warren County, passing the towns of Casey, Winterset, Patterson, Bevington, Martensdale, Spring Hill and Carlisle.[3] A substantial portion of the Middle River's course through Warren County has been straightened and channelized.[3] It joins the Des Moines River in Warren County near Carlisle, Script error: No such module "convert". southeast of Des Moines.[4]
Script error: No such module "anchor".A short headwaters tributary of the river is known as the South Fork Middle River.[5] It rises near the western edge of Guthrie County, about a mile north of Adair, at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert". and flows generally east-southeast for about Script error: No such module "convert". passing just south of Casey before turning northeast as it empties into the Middle River just east of Casey at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert"..
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Template:Webarchive, accessed May 26, 2011
- ↑ Iowa Department of Natural Resources/Iowa Geological Survey. Watershed Monitoring and Assessment: Middle River. Template:Webarchive
- ↑ a b DeLorme (1998). Iowa Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry for Middle River Template:Webarchive
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