Whetstone River
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The Whetstone River is a Script error: No such module "convert".[1] tributary of the Minnesota River, in northeastern South Dakota and a very small portion of western Minnesota in the United States. Via the Minnesota River, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.
Course
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At Big Stone City, the river has a mean annual discharge of 69 cubic feet per second.[2]
Upstream of Big Stone City, the river collects two tributaries, the North Fork Whetstone River and the South Fork Whetstone River, each of which rises on the Coteau. The North Fork flows southeastward from Roberts County and passes near the town of Wilmot. The South Fork flows westward in Grant County and passes the town of Milbank.
See also
References
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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed October 5, 2012
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- Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
- DeLorme (1994). Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN.
- DeLorme (2001). South Dakota Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Template:ISBN.
- Geographic Names Information System entries for Template:Gnis, Template:Gnis, Template:Gnis, retrieved 6 February 2006
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