Little Willamette River

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Little Willamette River
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Location of the mouth of the Little Willamette River in Oregon
Location
Country United States
State Oregon
County Linn
Physical characteristics
SourceWetlands west of Albany
 ⁃ locationGravel pit near the Willamette River
 ⁃ coordinates 44°36′58″N123°10′37″W / 44.61611°N 123.17694°W / 44.61611; -123.17694 [1]
 ⁃ elevation199 ft (61 m) [2]
Mouth Willamette River
 ⁃ location
Bowers Rock State Park
 ⁃ coordinates
 44°38′12″N123°09′04″W / 44.63667°N 123.15111°W / 44.63667; -123.15111 Coordinates: 44°38′12″N123°09′04″W / 44.63667°N 123.15111°W / 44.63667; -123.15111 [1]
 ⁃ elevation
177 ft (54 m) [1]
Length3 mi (4.8 km) [3]

The Little Willamette River is a minor tributary of the Willamette River in Linn County in the U.S. state of Oregon. It begins in a gravel pit slightly east of the main stem in a bend of the larger river west of Albany. Flowing generally northeast and roughly parallel to the main stem for about 3 miles (5 km), it enters the Willamette about 121.5 miles (195.5 km) from the larger river's mouth on the Columbia River. [3]

Willamette River major river in northwest Oregon

The Willamette River is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting for 12 to 15 percent of the Columbia's flow. The Willamette's main stem is 187 miles (301 km) long, lying entirely in northwestern Oregon in the United States. Flowing northward between the Oregon Coast Range and the Cascade Range, the river and its tributaries form the Willamette Valley, a basin that contains two-thirds of Oregon's population, including the state capital, Salem, and the state's largest city, Portland, which surrounds the Willamette's mouth at the Columbia.

Linn County, Oregon County in the United States

Linn County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 census, the population was 116,672. The county seat is Albany. The county is named in honor of Lewis F. Linn, a U.S. Senator from Missouri who advocated the American settlement of the Oregon Country.

U.S. state constituent political entity of the United States

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are currently 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory and shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Due to this shared sovereignty, Americans are citizens both of the federal republic and of the state in which they reside. State citizenship and residency are flexible, and no government approval is required to move between states, except for persons restricted by certain types of court orders. Four states use the term commonwealth rather than state in their full official names.

Along its lower course, the Little Willamette flows through Bowers Rock State Park, a 568-acre (230 ha) tract in a riparian forest. [4] The park, largely undeveloped, with primitive trails and no amenities, is part of the Willamette Greenway. [5] The only named tributary of the Little Willamette is Coon Creek, which enters from the left. [3]

Willamette Greenway

The Willamette River Greenway Program, established by the 1967 Oregon legislature, is a cooperative state and local government effort to maintain and enhance the scenic, recreational, historic, natural and agricultural qualities of the Willamette River and its adjacent lands. A number of trails exist along the greenway, but significant gaps still exist.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Little Willamette River". Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  2. ↑ Source elevation derived from Google Earth search using GNIS source coordinates.
  3. 1 2 3 "United States Topographic Map". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved December 23, 2015– via Acme Mapper. The map includes mile markers along the main stem Willamette.
  4. ↑ Odegard, Kyle (December 21, 2014). "Bowers Rock: Oregon State Parks' Hidden Gem" . Albany Democrat–Herald. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Bowers Rock State Park". Willamette Riverkeeper. Retrieved December 25, 2015.


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