Fryingpan River
| Fryingpan River | |
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Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness, Pitkin County | |
| • coordinates | 39°09′52″N 106°31′40″W / 39.16444°N 106.52778°W[1] |
| • elevation | 12,083 ft (3,683 m) |
| Mouth | Roaring Fork River |
• location | Basalt, Eagle County |
• coordinates | 39°22′00″N 107°02′03″W / 39.36667°N 107.03417°W[1] |
• elevation | 6,591 ft (2,009 m) |
| Length | 42 mi (68 km)[2] |
| Basin size | 237 sq mi (610 km2)[3] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near Ruedi[3] |
| • average | 176 cu ft/s (5.0 m3/s)[3] |
| • minimum | 28 cu ft/s (0.79 m3/s) |
| • maximum | 2,690 cu ft/s (76 m3/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Marten Creek, South Fork Fryingpan River, Rocky Fork Creek |
| • right | Ivanhoe Creek, North Fork Fryingpan River, Lime Creek |
The Fryingpan River is a tributary of the Roaring Fork River, approximately 42 miles (68 km) long,[2] in Eagle and Pitkin counties in Colorado, United States.
History
The reason for the unusual name of the river is that when a group of trappers were attacked by a band of Ute Native Americans, only two men survived, one of whom was injured. Leaving his wounded friend in a cave close by, the last man left to summon help, but not before hanging a frying pan in a tree so that he could find the cave again on his return.[1][4][5]
Geography
It rises in northeastern
Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
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See also
References
- ^ a b c "Fryingpan River". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-27.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b c "USGS Gage #09080400 on the Fryingpan River near Ruedi, CO" (PDF). National Water Information System. U.S. Geological Survey. 1969–2013. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
- ISBN 978-0-7627-9722-6.
- ^ Dawson, John Frank. Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 23.
External links
Media related to Fryingpan River at Wikimedia Commons
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