Battle Creek is a long
tributary
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of the
Owyhee River. Beginning at an elevation of
in central
Owyhee County, Idaho, it flows generally south through the
Owyhee Desert to its mouth west of
Riddle,
at an elevation of .
In 2009, of the creek were designated as
wild
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* Wild animal
* Wilderness, a wild natural environment
* Wildness, the quality of being wild or untamed
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by the
Omnibus Public Land Management Act
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, which also created the
Owyhee River Wilderness
The Owyhee River Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The wilderness area is named after and protects the upper Owyhee River, its tributaries, and the surrounding de ...
.
See also
*
List of rivers of Idaho
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Idaho.
By drainage basin
This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Pacific Ocean
*''Columbia River (WA)''
**Snake River
***Palouse ...
*
List of longest streams of Idaho
A total of seventy streams that are at least long flow through the U.S. state of Idaho. All of these streams originate in the United States except the Kootenai River (third-longest) and the Moyie River (thirty-first-longest), both of which beg ...
*
List of National Wild and Scenic Rivers
References
Rivers of Idaho
Owyhee River
Rivers of Owyhee County, Idaho
Wild and Scenic Rivers of the United States
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