Little Rock River

Little Rock River
Mouth of the Little Rock River
Location
Country	US
State	Iowa, Minnesota
District	Lyon County, Iowa, Osceola County, Iowa, Nobles County, Minnesota
Physical characteristics
Source
• coordinates	43°36′55″N 95°41′24″W[1]
Mouth	Rock River
• location	Doon, Iowa, US
• coordinates	43°15′51″N 96°14′48″W[1]
• elevation	1,250[1] ft (380 m)

The Little Rock River is a tributary of the Rock River, 74.5 miles (119.9 km) long,[2] in southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. Via the Rock, Big Sioux and Missouri rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River.

It has also been known as "Little Rock Creek".[1]

Course

The Little Rock River rises in Nobles County, Minnesota, 3 miles (5 km) west of the town of Worthington, and flows generally southwestwardly through Osceola and Lyon counties in Iowa, where it passes the towns of Little Rock and George. It flows into the Rock River about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of Doon.[3]

See also

• List of Iowa rivers
• List of Minnesota rivers

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Rock River
2. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 30, 2011
3. Doon, Iowa, 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1971

• Columbia Gazetteer of North America entry
• DeLorme (1998). Iowa Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-214-5.
• DeLorme (1994). Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. ISBN 0-89933-222-6.