Shell Rock River
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| File:Cherry Street Bridge over Shell Rock River.jpg Shell Rock River in Shell Rock, Iowa | |
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| Location | |
| Country | United States |
| States | Minnesota, Iowa |
| Counties (Minnesota) | Freeborn |
| Counties (Iowa) | Worth, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Butler, Bremer, Black Hawk |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Albert Lea Lake |
| • location | Freeborn County, Minnesota |
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| Mouth | West Fork Cedar River |
• location | Black Hawk County, Iowa |
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• elevation | 869 ft (265 m)[1] |
| Length | 113 miles (182 km) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Shell Rock, Iowa |
| • average | 1,211 cu/ft. per sec.[2] |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • right | Winnebago River |
The Shell Rock River is a 113-mile-long (182 km)[3] tributary of the West Fork Cedar River in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in the United States. Via the Cedar and Iowa rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed.[1]
Name
[edit | edit source]This river was named for the fossil shells found in outcroppings along its banks.[4] The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Shell Rock River" as the stream's name in 1931. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known by the spelling "Shellrock River".[1]
Course
[edit | edit source]The Shell Rock River flows from Albert Lea Lake in Freeborn County, Minnesota,[5] and soon enters Iowa, flowing generally south-southeastwardly through eastern Worth, northeastern Cerro Gordo, western Floyd, northeastern Butler, southwestern Bremer and northwestern Black Hawk counties, past the town of Glenville in Minnesota and the towns of Northwood, Plymouth, Rock Falls, Nora Springs, Rockford, Marble Rock, Greene, Clarksville and Shell Rock in Iowa. It joins the West Fork of the Cedar River in Black Hawk County, about 6 miles (10 km) north-northwest of Cedar Falls. At Rockford, Iowa, it collects the Winnebago River from the west.[6]
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shell Rock River
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- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed May 13, 2011
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- ^ DeLorme (1994). Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
- ^ DeLorme (1998). Iowa Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
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- Rivers of Iowa
- Rivers of Minnesota
- Rivers of Black Hawk County, Iowa
- Rivers of Bremer County, Iowa
- Rivers of Butler County, Iowa
- Rivers of Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
- Rivers of Floyd County, Iowa
- Rivers of Freeborn County, Minnesota
- Rivers of Worth County, Iowa
- Mississippi River watershed
- Cedar River (Iowa River tributary)