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Grand River (South Dakota)

Stream in South Dakota, USA

Stream in South Dakota, USA

FieldValue
nameGrand River
name_otherTributary to Missouri River
imageGrand River Little Eagle.jpg
image_captionThe Grand River near Little Eagle
mapMissouri River basin map.png
map_size250
map_captionThe Grand River shown as a tributary of the Missouri River
pushpin_mapSouth Dakota#USA
pushpin_map_captionLocation of Grand River mouth
subdivision_type1Country
subdivision_name1United States
subdivision_type2State
subdivision_name2South Dakota
subdivision_type3Counties
subdivision_name3Corson
Perkins
length177.46 mi
discharge1_locationMissouri River
discharge1_avg306.53 cuft/s at mouth with Missouri River
source1confluence of North Fork and South Fork Grand River
source1_locationShadehill Reservoir
source1_coordinates
source1_elevation2220 ft
mouthMissouri River
mouth_locationabout 1-mile northwest of Mobridge, South Dakota
mouth_coordinates
mouth_elevation1608 ft
progressionMissouri River → Mississippi River → Gulf of Mexico
river_systemMissouri River
basin_size5590.47 sqmi
tributaries_leftNorth Fork Grand River, Flat Creek, Dog Tooth Creek, Thunder Hawk Creek, Cyclone Creek, Deer Creek, Willow Creek, Cedar Boy Creek, Dirt Lodge Creek, Soldier Creek, Hump Creek, White Shirt Creek, Stink Creek, Rock Creek
tributaries_rightSouth Fork Grand River, Black Horse Butte Creek, Meadow Creek, Cottonwood Creek, Louse Creek, Firesteel Creek, Plum Creek, High Bank Creek, Little Oak Creek, Deep Bank Creek, Snake Creek, Claymore Creek
bridgesHugh Glass Road, SD 73, 116th Street, 209th Avenue, 215th Avenue, 119th Street, County Road, County Road, SD 65, unnamed road (x2), Brown Otter xing, CS 15, SD 63, US 12, SD 1806 (Singing Bridge)

Perkins

The Grand River () is a tributary of the Missouri River in South Dakota in the United States. The length of the combined branch is 110 mi (177 km). With its longest fork, its length is approximately 200 mi (320 km).

Variant names

According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known historically as:

  • Creek of the Rees
  • Marapa River
  • Palanat Palanata Wakpa Ree
  • Ree River
  • Riviere au Corn
  • We tar hoo River

Course

It is formed by the confluence of the North Fork (which rises in North Dakota) and the longer South Fork (which rises in South Dakota and passes through the town of Buffalo) in northwestern South Dakota near Shadehill in Perkins County, near several parcels of the Grand River National Grassland. Shadehill Reservoir is located at this confluence. It flows east, through the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and joins the Missouri in Lake Oahe, approximately 2 mi northwest of Mobridge. The lower 15 mi of the river form an arm of the Lake Oahe reservoir. It is the northernmost of South Dakota's major West River streams: the Grand, Moreau, Cheyenne, Bad, and White. Draining about 5200 sqmi of the northern plateaus of the state, the Grand receives most of its water from snowmelt. Water quality is high in sodium, and is therefore less appropriate for irrigation.

History

In 1823, Henry Leavenworth fought the Arikara a few miles north of the mouth of the Grand River during the Arikara War.

Sitting Bull (1831–1890), a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief, was born on the Grand River in or nearby Dakota Territory. Decades later, he was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Sioux Agency at his camp near the Grand River, as the police tried to arrest him.

The forks of the Grand was the site of a noted 1823 attack by a grizzly bear on frontiersman Hugh Glass, the inspiration for the 2015 film The Revenant.

References

References

  1. "ArcGIS Web Application". US EPA.
  2. "Watershed Report {{!}} Office of Water {{!}} US EPA". US EPA.
  3. "Geographic Names Information System". US Geological Survey.
  4. (2011). "New Lakota Dictionary". Lakota Language Consortium.
  5. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170228105945/https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5445845.pdf Map] of the Grand River National Grassland
  6. (2001). "The Geography of South Dakota". The Center for Western Studies – [[Augustana College (South Dakota).
  7. "USGS Surface Water data for South Dakota: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".
  8. "PBS: The West: Sitting Bull".
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