Platte River (Minnesota)
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The Platte River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in central Minnesota in the United States.[1] It is Script error: No such module "convert". long.[2] Platte is a name derived from the French meaning "flat".[3]
Course
The Platte flows from Platte Lake in southeastern Crow Wing County, flows through Lake Sullivan, and Round Lake, and follows a generally southwestward course through eastern Morrison County, through the towns of Harding and Royalton. It flows into the Mississippi River in Benton County, about Script error: No such module "convert". south of Royalton.
The Platte's largest tributary is the Skunk River, which joins it in Morrison County.
See also
References
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Script error: No such module "If empty".
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed November 29, 2012
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Further reading
- Waters, Thomas F. (1977). The Streams and Rivers of Minnesota. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Template:ISBN.
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