Blueberry River (Minnesota)

Geobox River
name = Blueberry River
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image_caption = The Blueberry River in Blueberry Township in 2007
country = United States
state = Minnesota
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length_imperial = 20
length_note = [cite web |url= http://iaspub.epa.gov/waters/w305b_report_control.get_report?p_state=MN |title= National Assessment Database: Assessment Data for the State of Minnesota Year 2004. |pages= [http://iaspub.epa.gov/tmdl/w305b_report_V4.huc?p_huc=07010106&p_state=MN Crow Wing Watershed] |publisher= United States Environmental Protection Agency |accessdate= 2007-06-24 Length of the river from an unnamed tributary to its mouth is 10.56 miles. Upstream length estimated at eight miles per DeLorme, and total rounded to twenty miles.]
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source_location = Green Valley Township
source_district = Becker County
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source_lat_d = 46
source_lat_m = 50
source_lat_s = 30
source_lat_NS = N
source_long_d = 95
source_long_m = 16
source_long_s = 45
source_long_EW = W
source_coordinates_note = cite web |url=Gnis3|640304 |title=Geographic Names Information System entry for Blueberry River (Feature ID #640304) |work=Geographic Names Information System |publisher= United States Geological Survey |accessdate=2007-06-24]
source_elevation_imperial = 1506
source_elevation_note = Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates. Retrieved on 2007-06-24.]
mouth_name = Blueberry Lake, Shell River
mouth_location = Blueberry Township
mouth_district = Wadena County
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mouth_lat_d = 46
mouth_lat_m = 46
mouth_lat_s = 48
mouth_lat_NS = N
mouth_long_d = 95
mouth_long_m = 05
mouth_long_s = 34
mouth_long_EW = W
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mouth_elevation_imperial = 1362
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tributary_right = Kettle River
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The Blueberry River is a tributary of the Shell River, approximately twenty miles (30 km) long, in north-central Minnesota in the United States. Via the Shell and Crow Wing Rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River, draining a rural area.

The river's name is a translation from its name in the Ojibwe language. [cite web |url=http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/index.cfm |title=Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia. |accessdate=2007-06-24 |last=Upham |first=Warren |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society |pages= [http://mnplaces.mnhs.org/upham/waterway.cfm?PlaceNameID=311&BookCodeID=53&County=80&SendingPage=Results.cfm Wadena County: Blueberry Township] ]

Geography

The Blueberry River rises in Green Valley Township in southeastern Becker County and flows generally southeastwardly. It flows for a short distance in southwestern Hubbard County and enters northwestern Wadena County, collecting the Kettle River and passing through the city of Menahga. It flows into Blueberry Lake on the Shell River in Blueberry Township in Wadena County, approximately two miles (3 km) north of Menahga. [cite book| title= Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer |year=1994 |publisher= DeLorme |location=Yarmouth, Me. |isbn= 0-89933-222-6 |pages= p. 61] The Blueberry River flows in the Northern Lakes and Forests ecoregion, which is characterized by conifer and hardwood forests on flat and rolling till plains and outwash plains. [cite web |url= http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/uppermiss/index.html |title= Upper Mississippi River Basin. |pages= [http://www.pca.state.mn.us/water/basins/uppermiss/bid-section3.pdf Upper Mississippi River Basin Water Quality Plan, Headwaters to the Rum River - Anoka, Section III: Upper Mississippi River Basin] |publisher= Minnesota Pollution Control Agency |year= 2000 |accessdate= 2007-06-24]

ee also

*List of rivers in Minnesota

References and notes