The Buffalo River is a
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tributary of the
Mississippi River in western
Wisconsin in the
United States.
Course
The Buffalo River is formed at
Osseo in northeastern
Trempealeau County
Trempealeau County (, ) is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,760. Its county seat is Whitehall. Many people of Hispanic, Polish, Norwegian and German descent live in this area.
History
Patche ...
by the confluence of its North and South Forks, both of which are about long
[ and rise in northwestern Jackson County; the North Fork has at times been considered the main stem of the river. From Osseo, the Buffalo flows westwardly into Buffalo County, past Strum, Eleva and Mondovi. At Mondovi the river turns southwestward for the remainder of its course; it flows into the Mississippi River northwest of ]Alma
Alma or ALMA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Alma'' (film), a 2009 Spanish short animated film
* ''Alma'' (Oswald de Andrade novel), 1922
* ''Alma'' (Le Clézio novel), 2017
* ''Alma'' (play), a 1996 drama by Joshua Sobol about Alma ...
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For the last of the Buffalo's course, it is surrounded by marshland, before emptying into Rieck's Lake, a migratory stopover for thousands of tundra swans and other waterfowl. Rieck's Lake empties out into a riverine lake, called Buffalo Slough, part of Pool 4
Pool may refer to:
Water pool
* Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large body of water intended for swimming
* Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings
* Tide pool, a rocky poo ...
on the Mississippi River.
Variant names
The United States Board on Geographic Names
The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior. The purpose of the board is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic names throughout the federal governm ...
settled on "Buffalo River" as the stream's official name in 1930, and settled on the North Fork's name in 1969. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Buffalo River has also been known as:
*Beef River
*Beef Slough
*River of Wild Bulls
*Riviere de Beeufs
See also
* List of Wisconsin rivers
References
External links
Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
* DeLorme
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(1992). ''Wisconsin Atlas & Gazetteer''. Freeport, Maine: DeLorme. .
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Rivers of Wisconsin
Tributaries of the Mississippi River
Rivers of Buffalo County, Wisconsin
Rivers of Trempealeau County, Wisconsin