Mink Brook is a
stream
A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a stream ...
in western
New Hampshire in the
United States. It is a tributary of the
Connecticut River
The Connecticut River is the longest river in the New England region of the United States, flowing roughly southward for through four states. It rises 300 yards (270 m) south of the U.S. border with Quebec, Canada, and discharges at Long Island ...
, which flows to
Long Island Sound
Long Island Sound is a marine sound and tidal estuary of the Atlantic Ocean. It lies predominantly between the U.S. state of Connecticut to the north and Long Island in New York to the south. From west to east, the sound stretches from the Eas ...
.
Mink Brook lies entirely in the town of
Hanover. It rises on the western slopes of
Moose Mountain and flows west, through the village of
Etna, before reaching the Connecticut just north of the Hanover-
Lebanon municipal boundary.
See also
*
List of rivers of New Hampshire
References
New Hampshire GRANITgeographic information system
A geographic information system (GIS) is a type of database containing Geographic data and information, geographic data (that is, descriptions of phenomena for which location is relevant), combined with Geographic information system software, sof ...
: 1:25,000-scale digital hydrographic data derived from
U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps
Rivers of New Hampshire
Tributaries of the Connecticut River
Rivers of Grafton County, New Hampshire
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