Us-kab-wan-ka River, also known as the Ush-kab-wan River, is a small
tributary
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of the
Cloquet River
The Cloquet River is a , accessed May 7, 2012 river in Minnesota, United States. It is the main tributary of the Saint Louis River.
Name
Cloquet ( ) River is known in the Ojibwe language as the ''Gaa-biitootigweyaag-ziibi'' ("River that parallel ...
in northeast
Minnesota
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in the
United States
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. It is approximately long.
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
accessed May 7, 2012 Along with its tributaries, the Us-kab-wan-ka drains an area of .
Its name in the
Ojibwe language
Ojibwe , also known as Ojibwa , Ojibway, Otchipwe,R. R. Bishop Baraga, 1878''A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the Otchipwe Language''/ref> Ojibwemowin, or Anishinaabemowin, is an indigenous language of North America of the Algonquian lan ...
is ''askibwaanikaa-ziibi'' (river full of
Jerusalem artichoke
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s), having the identical name in Ojibwe as the nearby
Artichoke River The Artichoke River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 7, 2012 tributary of the Saint Louis River in northeastern Minnesota in the United States.
Via the Saint Loui ...
.
Course
Via the Cloquet River and the
Saint Louis River, it is part of the
watershed
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Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
of
Lake Superior
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. It flows through
Whiteface Reservoir Unorganized Territory and
Grand Lake Township in southern
Saint Louis County.
The river begins at the outlet of Rush Lake in
Cloquet Valley State Forest
The Cloquet Valley State Forest encompasses ; of which (or 15%) are Minnesota Department of Natural Resources forestry administered lands.
Located in southeast Saint Louis County, the Cloquet Valley State Forest is located about north of Dul ...
and flows generally southwest, then southward. It flows into the Cloquet River, two miles south of
Taft.
See also
*
List of Minnesota rivers
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, ...
References
Rivers of Minnesota
Rivers of St. Louis County, Minnesota
Tributaries of Lake Superior
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