The Luckiamute River is a tributary of the

Willamette River The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward b ...

, about long, in western

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in the United States. It drains an area of

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and the western

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northwest of Corvallis. It rises in the remote mountains of southwestern

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, about west of

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. It flows southeast to

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in Benton County, then northeast into Polk County, past Pedee, then east across southern Polk County. It is joined from the northwest by the

Little Luckiamute River The Little Luckiamute River is a stream in Polk County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It rises in the Central Oregon Coast Range near Fanno Peak and joins the Luckiamute River about upstream of the Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site southwest of ...

. It joins the Willamette from the west about north of Albany. The mouth of the river is about downstream from the mouth of the

Santiam River The Santiam River is a tributary of the Willamette River, about long, in western Oregon in the United States. Through its two principal tributaries, the North Santiam and the South Santiam rivers, it drains a large area of the Cascade Range a ...

, which enters the Willamette from the east upstream of the Willamette's mouth on the

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. Named tributaries from source to mouth are Boulder, Beaver, Miller, Wolf, Rock Pit, Slick, Cougar, Slide, and Harris creeks. Further downstream are Hull, Foster, Jones, Bonner, Vincent, Plunkett, and Price creeks. Maxfield Creek is next followed by Bump, Ritner, Pedee, McTimmonds, Link, Dry, and Jont creeks followed by the Little Luckiamute River. Soap Creek enters the

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along the Luckiamute's lower reaches. The map includes mile markers along the Willamette and Luckiamute rivers. The Luckiamute Watershed Council includes Ash Creek in its

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study area, although it drains directly into the Willamette River.

References

External links

Luckiamute Watershed Council
{{authority control Tributaries of the Willamette River Rivers of Polk County, Oregon Rivers of Benton County, Oregon Rivers of Oregon

See also

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