Blue Creek is a long
of the
Owyhee River in the
U.S. state of
Idaho. Beginning at an elevation of
in central
Owyhee County, it flows generally south through the
Owyhee Desert and near the community of
Riddle, where it is roughly paralleled by
Idaho State Highway 51
State Highway 51 (SH-51) is a state highway in southwestern Idaho from Mountain Home south to the Nevada border, where it continues as State Route 225 to Elko. It is the major north–south road in Owyhee County.
As currently configured in ...
. It then flows into the
Duck Valley Indian Reservation to its mouth near the Idaho/
Nevada border northwest of
Owyhee, Nevada
Owyhee (, ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Elko County, Nevada, United States, along the banks of the Owyhee River. The population was 953 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Elko Micropolitan Statistical Area. It is the primary town of ...
,
at an elevation of .
See also
*
List of rivers of Idaho
*
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 ...
References
Rivers of Idaho
Owyhee River
Rivers of Owyhee County, Idaho
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