The West Fork of the Little Sioux River is a river in the northwestern
Iowa
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,
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. It is a tributary to the
Little Sioux River
The Little Sioux River is a river in the United States. It rises in southwestern Minnesota near the Iowa border, and continues to flow southwest for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map ...
through the Garretson Outlet Ditch within the
Missouri River floodplain
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which it enters at .
[''Itomick, IA'' and ''Onawa, IA,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangles, USGS, 1969 (1971 rev.)]
Approximately long,
[U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data]
The National Map
accessed March 30, 2011 it courses through northwest
Iowa
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. The headwaters arise north of
Marcus in
Cherokee County Cherokee County is the name of eight counties in the United States:
* Cherokee County, Alabama
* Cherokee County, Georgia
* Cherokee County, Iowa
* Cherokee County, Kansas
* Cherokee County, North Carolina
* Cherokee County, Oklahoma
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and Woodbury Woodbury may refer to:
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counties until the meandered (old) streambed finally meets the Little Sioux River
The Little Sioux River is a river in the United States. It rises in southwestern Minnesota near the Iowa border, and continues to flow southwest for U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map ...
near Turin
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in Monona County.
However, the lower portion of the river, where the stream leaves the Loess Hills and enters the Missouri River floodplain near Holly Springs, Iowa, has been extensively channelized. Across this floodplain, most of the flow is actually carried by the Garretson and West Fork drainage ditches, which join to become the Monona-Harrison Ditch, which in turn enters the Missouri just upstream from the mouth of the Little Sioux in Harrison County.
See also
*List of Iowa rivers
The following is a list of rivers and creeks in Iowa. The rivers are listed by multiple arrangements:
*those that form part of the boundaries of the U.S. state of Iowa;
*ordered by drainage basin, with tributaries indented under each larger river ...
References
External links
Geography of Woodbury County, including West Fork of the Little Sioux watershed
Rivers of Iowa
Rivers of Cherokee County, Iowa
Rivers of Plymouth County, Iowa
Rivers of Woodbury County, Iowa
Rivers of Monona County, Iowa
Rivers of Harrison County, Iowa
Tributaries of the Missouri River
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