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Vermillion River (Minnesota)

Field	Value
name	Vermillion River
name_native
image	VermillionFalls.jpg
image_caption	Vermillion Falls in Hastings
pushpin_map	Minnesota
pushpin_map_caption	Mouth of the Vermillion River
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	United States
subdivision_type2	State
subdivision_name2	Minnesota
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	Goohue County, Dakota County, Scott County
length	59.6 mi
source1_location	New Market, Minnesota
source1_coordinates
mouth_location	Welch, Minnesota
mouth_coordinates
river_system	Mississippi River
basin_size	335 mi2
tributaries_right	South Branch Vermillion River
waterfalls	Vermillion Falls

The Vermillion River, known in Dakota as Wa Se Sa Wa Kpa, is a 59.6 mi waterway that meanders through Scott County and Dakota County in Minnesota, entering the Mississippi River floodplain just south of Hastings. 13.5 mi of it are designated as a trout stream, which is unusual for being so close to a metropolitan area. Trophy-sized trout used to be found in the river often but now rarely.

Description

Vermillion, derived from the French for "red", was probably so named from deposits of ochre the Dakota used for body painting. Also in reference to the ochre deposits, the Dakota name for the river, Wa Se Sa Wa Kpa, translates to 'Red Paint River'.

The Vermillion is a state-designated trout stream, managed for catch-and-release fishing of brown trout. The portion of the river that supports trout is upstream, around the towns of Farmington; Empire, and the City of Lakeville. An old channel of the Vermillion River continues south from Hastings on the western edge of the Mississippi valley.

Activities on the river

In the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the river was used for water power, supplying power to gristmills. A park surrounding the falls preserves the remains of a mill operated by Alexander Ramsey, one of the leading citizens of early Minnesota.

The nonprofit conservation group Minnesota Trout Unlimited and its volunteers have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in physical restoration of the river and adjoining upland areas, funding four projects through grants from the state's Outdoor Heritage Fund. The Twin Cities chapter of Trout Unlimited sponsors a local community volunteer group called the Vermillion Riverkeepers. Volunteers work with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to remove invasive non-native species such as buckthorn from several state DNR Aquatic Management Areas (AMAs), in addition to fisheries research and stream restoration projects .

Another group, Friends of the Mississippi River, engages people in cleanups, restoration events and educational activities through its Vermillion Stewards Program and accesses state grant funding to enable upland restoration across hundreds of acres in the Vermillion watershed.

Gallery of images

Image:vupperfalls.jpg|Vermillion River upper falls in Hastings Image:vvalley1.jpg|Vermillion River valley in Hastings Image:vvaley2.jpg|Vermillion River valley in Hastings Image:Ramsey Mill.jpg|Ruin of the 1857 Ramsey Mill

References

Vermillion River Watershed Joint Powers Organization. "The Vermillion River Watershed". Dakota County.
"Vermillion River Watershed:Who We Are".
U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. [http://viewer.nationalmap.gov/viewer/ The National Map] {{Webarchive. link. (2012-03-29 , accessed October 4, 2012)
1. Vermillion River
"Vermillion River".
Upham, Warren. (1920). "Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance". Minnesota Historical Society.
"State record fish". [[Minnesota DNR]].
"Twin Cities Trout Unlimited".

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