The Cloquet River is a
[, accessed May 7, 2012] river in
Minnesota
Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...
, United States. It is the main
tributary
A tributary, or affluent, is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream or main stem (or parent) river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries and the main stem river drain the surrounding drai ...
of the
Saint Louis River.
Name
Cloquet ( ) River is known in the
Ojibwe language
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as the ''Gaa-biitootigweyaag-ziibi'' ("River that parallels the
Saint Louis River"). On the map of
Stephen H. Long's expedition in 1823, it shows that stream as "Rapid River", and it is unnamed on the map by
David Thompson in 1826 for the
proposed routes of the international boundary. However, on the 1843
Joseph N. Nicollet map, the river is identified by its present name.
[Upham, Warren]
"Cloquet"
in " Carlton County" section of ''Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia''. Accessed July 27, 2013.
Geography
The Cloquet River generally flows in a southwesterly direction through Indian Lake, Alden Lake, and Island Lake, before emptying into the Saint Louis River.
One can separate the river into two primary stretches, the upper stretch beginning at Cloquet Lake in
Lake County as a small stream and ending at Island Lake.
Tributaries of the Cloquet River include the
Us-kab-wan-ka River
Us-kab-wan-ka River, also known as the Ush-kab-wan River, is a small tributary of the Cloquet River in northeast Minnesota in the United States. It is approximately long.U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowli ...
, the
Beaver River, and
Little Cloquet River
The Little Cloquet River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 7, 2012 river located in southern St. Louis County, Minnesota, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United Stat ...
.
See also
*
List of rivers of Minnesota
Minnesota has 6,564 natural rivers and streams that cumulatively flow for . The Mississippi River begins its journey from its headwaters at Lake Itasca and crosses the Iowa border downstream. It is joined by the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling ...
*
List of longest streams of Minnesota
Out of the 6,564 streams that flow through the U.S. State of Minnesota, there are 114 streams that are at least 30 miles long. The second longest river in the United States, the Mississippi River, originates in Minnesota before flowing south t ...
References
Minnesota Watersheds* USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974)
Rivers of Minnesota
Rivers of Lake County, Minnesota
Rivers of St. Louis County, Minnesota
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