The Egg River is a 16-mile-long (26 km)[1] tributary of the Otter Tail River of Minnesota in the United States. It flows through a chain of lakes in the Tamarac National Wildlife Refuge and the White Earth Indian Reservation in Becker County, Minnesota.
Egg River | |
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Country | United States |
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• location | Minnesota |
Egg River, as well as the Egg Lakes through which it flows, is an English translation of the original Ojibway word for the stream and proximate habitat, once characterized as a nesting area for water-loving birds.[2]
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edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed June 8, 2011
- ^ Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 32.
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Egg River
- Minnesota Watersheds
- USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Minnesota (1974)