Little Wood River (Idaho)

River in Idaho, United States

Little Wood River

McArthurs River & Wood River

Little Wood River, south of Richfield

Location of the mouth of the Little Wood River in Idaho

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Little Wood River (Idaho) (the United States)

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Location
Country| United States
State| Idaho
Region| Blaine County, Lincoln County, Gooding County
Physical characteristics
Source| Pioneer Mountains
• location| Blaine County
• coordinates| 43°45′41″N 114°0′13″W﻿ / ﻿43.76139°N 114.00361°W﻿ / 43.76139; -114.00361[1]
• elevation| 9,832 ft (2,997 m)[2]
Mouth| Malad River

• location

| Gooding County

• coordinates

| 42°56′42″N 114°47′46″W﻿ / ﻿42.94500°N 114.79611°W﻿ / 42.94500; -114.79611[1]

• elevation

| 3,460 ft (1,050 m)[2]
Length| 130 mi (210 km)
Discharge|
• location| below Little Wood Reservoir[3]
• average| 351 cu ft/s (9.9 m3/s)[3]
• minimum| 0.34 cu ft/s (0.0096 m3/s)
• maximum| 2,900 cu ft/s (82 m3/s)

Little Wood River is a 130-mile-long (210 km)[4] river in south-central Idaho in the United States.[1] It is a tributary of the Malad River, which in turn is a tributary to the Snake River and Columbia River.

## Description

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The Little Wood River originates in the Pioneer Mountains of northern Blaine County, then flows south through Little Wood Reservoir near Carey. Below the reservoir the river flows south into Lincoln County, past Richfield, and then west, past Shoshone, after which it enters Gooding County. Just west of Gooding, the Little Wood River joins the Big Wood River to form the Malad River.

Its tributaries include Baugh Creek.[5]

The Little Wood River is the key source of irrigation water for eastern Blaine County and most of Lincoln County. Its water was a major attraction for the region's first permanent settlement at Carey. The river's water flow is regulated by reservoirs and affected by diversions of water into irrigation canals.

Variant names of the Little Wood River, according to the USGS, include McArthurs River and Wood River.[1]

## See also

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* Rivers portal

* List of rivers of Idaho
* List of longest streams of Idaho

## References

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1. ^ a b c d U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Wood River
2. ^ a b Google Earth elevation for GNIS coordinates.
3. ^ a b Water Resource Data, Idaho, 2005, USGS.
4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 4, 2011
5. ^ "Baugh Creek". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.

## External links

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