Twelvemile Creek (Mustinka River tributary)

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Twelvemile Creek
Country United States
Physical characteristics
Main source Minnesota
Basin features
Basin size Mustinka River

Twelvemile Creek is a 55.1-mile-long (88.7 km) [1] tributary of the Mustinka River of Minnesota in the United States. It rises in Stevens County and flows northwest before joining the Mustinka in Traverse County. [2] Via the Mustinka and Bois de Sioux rivers, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg, and the Nelson River, it is part of the Hudson Bay watershed.

Mustinka River river in Minnesota

The Mustinka River is a tributary of Lake Traverse, 68 mi (109 km) long, in western Minnesota in the United States. Via Lake Traverse, the Bois de Sioux River, the Red River of the North, Lake Winnipeg, and the Nelson River, it is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay. The river drains an area of 909 square miles (2,350 km2).

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed June 8, 2011
  2. ↑ Minnesota. State Drainage Commission, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1912). Report of the water resources investigation of Minnesota, 1911-1912. McGill-Warner. p. 592.

Coordinates: 45°53′20″N96°21′44″W / 45.88885°N 96.36229°W / 45.88885; -96.36229

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