Luckiamute River
Luckiamute River | |
Luckiamute River at Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site
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Name origin: Native American but of unknown meaning[1] | |
Country | United States |
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State | Oregon |
County | Polk and Benton |
Source | Central Oregon Coast Range |
- location | near Bald Mountain, Polk County |
- elevation | 2,684 ft (818 m) [2] |
- coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [3] |
Mouth | Willamette River |
- location | near Buena Vista, Polk County |
- elevation | 157 ft (48 m) [3] |
- coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. [3] |
Length | 62 mi (100 km) [4] |
Basin | 315 sq mi (816 km2) [5] |
Discharge | for Helmick State Recreation Site, 13.5 miles (21.7 km) from the mouth |
- average | 872 cu ft/s (25 m3/s) [6] |
- max | 32,900 cu ft/s (932 m3/s) |
- min | 0.65 cu ft/s (0 m3/s) |
The Luckiamute River is a tributary of the Willamette River, about 62 miles (100 km) long, in western Oregon in the United States.[4] It drains an area of Central Oregon Coast Range and the western Willamette Valley northwest of Corvallis.[7]
It rises in the remote mountains of southwestern Polk County, about 10 miles (16 km) west of Pedee. It flows southeast to Hoskins in Benton County, then northeast into Polk County, past Pedee, then east across southern Polk County. It is joined from northwest by the Little Luckiamute River. It joins the Willamette from the west about 10 miles (16 km) north of Albany. The mouth of the river is located about Lua error in Module:Convert at line 452: attempt to index field 'titles' (a nil value). downstream from the mouth of the Santiam River, which enters the Willamette from the east.[7]
Among the tributary creeks are Waymire, Vincent, Plunkett, Woods, Maxfield, and Soap.[7] The Luckiamute Watershed Council includes Ash Creek in its watershed study area, although it drains directly into the Willamette River.[8]
See also
References
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- ↑ Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The map quadrants include river-mile (RM) markers to RM 59 (river kilometer 95). The remaining distance is an estimate based on map scale and ruler.
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