Shell Rock River

Shell Rock River

The Shell Rock River is a tributary of the Cedar River, 102 mi (164 km) long in southern Minnesota and northern Iowa in the United States. [ [http://www.bartleby.com/69/3/S10103.html Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry] ] Via the Cedar and Iowa Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The United States Board on Geographic Names settled on "Shell Rock River" as the stream's name in 1931. According to the Geographic Names Information System, it has also been known by the spelling "Shellrock River." [Gnis|461563]

Course

The Shell Rock River flows from Albert Lea Lake in Freeborn County, Minnesota, [DeLorme (1994). "Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-222-6.] and soon enters Iowa, flowing generally south-southeastwardly through eastern Worth, northeastern Cerro Gordo, western Floyd, northeastern Butler, southwestern Bremer and northwestern Black Hawk Counties, past the town of Glenville in Minnesota and the towns of Northwood, Plymouth, Rock Falls, Nora Springs, Rockford, Marble Rock, Greene, Clarksville and Shell Rock in Iowa. It joins the Cedar River in Black Hawk County, about 6 mi (10 km) north-northwest of Cedar Falls. At Rockford, Iowa, it collects the Winnebago River from the west. [DeLorme (1998). "Iowa Atlas & Gazetteer". Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-214-5.]

ee also

*List of Iowa rivers
*List of Minnesota rivers

References


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