Big Sandy River (Wyoming)

Coordinates: 41°51′05″N 109°46′58″W / 41.85139°N 109.78278°W / 41.85139; -109.78278
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Big Sandy Creek, Wyoming

The Big Sandy River (also called Big Sandy Creek) is a 141-mile-long (227 km)

Green River in Wyoming in the United States
.

Course

It rises in eastern

Bridger-Teton National Forest
.

It flows south, southwest, southeast, then southwest, past the town of Farson and joins the Green in western Sweetwater County.

Above Farson, it is dammed to form the

Big Sandy Reservoir
.

Big Sandy River streamflow near Farson in September 2002 during drought conditions.

See also

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 18, 2011

External links

41°51′05″N 109°46′58″W / 41.85139°N 109.78278°W / 41.85139; -109.78278