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The Lake Fork River is a river in Duchesne County,
Utah Utah ( , ) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. Utah is a landlocked U.S. state bordered to its east by Colorado, to its northeast by Wyoming, to its north by Idaho, to its south by Arizona, and to it ...
in the United States. It flows for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed 2016-05-13
from Mount Lovenia in the
Uinta Mountains The Uinta Mountains ( ) are an east-west trending chain of mountains in northeastern Utah extending slightly into southern Wyoming in the United States. As a subrange of the Rocky Mountains, they are unusual for being the highest range in the con ...
, in a southeasterly direction, receiving the
Yellowstone River The Yellowstone River is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately long, in the Western United States. Considered the principal tributary of upper Missouri, via its own tributaries it drains an area with headwaters across the mountains an ...
above Mountain Home, to join the
Duchesne River The Duchesne River ( ), located in the Uintah Basin region of Utah in the western United States, is a tributary of the Green River (Colorado River), Green River. The watershed of the river covers the Northeastern corner of Utah. The Duchesne Riv ...
near Myton. The river is dammed near its headwaters to form Moon Lake, formerly a smaller natural lake.


See also

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List of rivers of Utah This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of Utah in the United States, sorted by drainage basin, watershed. Colorado River The Colorado River is a major river in the Western United States, emptying into the Gulf of California. Rivers are list ...
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List of tributaries of the Colorado River The principal tributaries of the Colorado River of North America are the Gila River, the San Juan River, the Green River, and the Gunnison River. Tributary tree The following is a tree demonstrating the points at which the major and minor trib ...


References

Rivers of Utah Rivers of Duchesne County, Utah {{Utah-river-stub