Dead River (Otter Tail River tributary)

The Dead River is a 17.5-mile-long (28.2 km)[1] tributary of the Otter Tail River of Minnesota in the United States. It rises east of Dent and flows south through Dead Lake and Walker Lake to its mouth at Otter Tail Lake on the Otter Tail River.

Dead River
Location
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationMinnesota

The name Dead River commemorates a massacre of the Ojibwe Indians.[2]

See also

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-04-05 at WebCite, accessed June 8, 2011
  2. Upham, Warren (1920). Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance. Minnesota Historical Society. p. 393.
  3. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Dead River


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