The West Branch of the Dead Diamond River is a
river
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of ...
in northern
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t ...
in the
United States
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. It is a tributary of the
Dead Diamond River
The Dead Diamond River is an river in northern New Hampshire in the United States. Its water enters the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of Maine by passing through the Magalloway, Androscoggin, and Kennebec rivers.
The Dead Diamond River is fo ...
, located in the
Androscoggin River
The Androscoggin River (Abenaki: ''Aləssíkαntekʷ'') is a river in the U.S. states of Maine and New Hampshire, in northern New England. It is U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Ma ...
watershed
Watershed is a hydrological term, which has been adopted in other fields in a more or less figurative sense. It may refer to:
Hydrology
* Drainage divide, the line that separates neighbouring drainage basins
* Drainage basin, called a "watershe ...
of
Maine
Maine () is a state in the New England and Northeastern regions of the United States. It borders New Hampshire to the west, the Gulf of Maine to the southeast, and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and nor ...
and New Hampshire.
The West Branch of the Dead Diamond River rises in a southern corner of the town of
Pittsburg, New Hampshire
Pittsburg is a New England town, town in Coös County, New Hampshire, Coös County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 800 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. It is the northernmost town in New Hampshire and the largest t ...
, at the juncture of Rowell and Roby brooks.
Flowing southeast, it passes into the township of
Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy Grant, where it joins the
East Branch to form the Dead Diamond River. The
Middle Branch
Middle or The Middle may refer to:
* Centre (geometry), the point equally distant from the outer limits.
Places
* Middle (sheading), a subdivision of the Isle of Man
* Middle Bay (disambiguation)
* Middle Brook (disambiguation)
* Middle Creek ( ...
of the Dead Diamond joins the West Branch shortly before the West and East branches join.
See also
*
List of rivers of New Hampshire
This is a list of rivers and significant streams in the U.S. state of New Hampshire.
All watercourses named "River" (freshwater or tidal) are listed here, as well as other streams which are either subject to thNew Hampshire Comprehensive Shorelan ...
References
Rivers of New Hampshire
Rivers of Coös County, New Hampshire
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