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List of rivers of Wyoming. 4 languages. ... Little Tongue River ; Powder River. Clear Creek. Rock Creek; Little Missouri River; Cheyenne River. Belle Fourche River;
Parting of the Waters is an unusual hydrologic site at Two Ocean Pass on the Great Divide, within the Teton Wilderness area of Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA. Two Ocean Pass separates the headwaters of Pacific Creek, which flows west to the Pacific Ocean, and Atlantic Creek, which flows east to the Atlantic Ocean.
The Snake River in northwest Wyoming eventually drains into the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean, as does the Green River through the Colorado River Basin. The Continental Divide forks in the south central part of the state in an area known as the Great Divide Basin where water that precipitates onto or flows into it cannot reach an ocean ...
Sweetwater River (Wyoming) Swift Creek (Wyoming) T. Tensleep Creek; Tongue River (Montana) W. Wild Horse Creek (Wyoming) Wind River (Wyoming) Y. Yellowstone River
The Thunder Basin National Grassland is located in northeastern Wyoming in the Powder River Basin between the Big Horn Mountains and the Black Hills.The Grassland ranges in elevation from 3,600 to 5,200 feet (1,100 to 1,600 m), and the climate is semi-arid.
Atlantic Creek's twin, Pacific Creek, takes the other half of flow from North Two Ocean Creek. It flows further than the relatively short run of Atlantic Creek, emptying at Moran, Wyoming over 20 miles to the southwest into the Snake River below Jackson Lake Dam and ultimately the Pacific Ocean 1,353 mi (2,177 km) away via the Columbia River.
Two Ocean Pass is a mountain pass on North America's Continental Divide, in the Teton Wilderness, which is part of Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest.The pass is notable for Parting of the Waters, where one stream, North Two Ocean Creek, splits into two distributaries, Pacific Creek and Atlantic Creek, at Parting of the Waters National Natural Landmark.
The Niobrara River (/ ˌ n aɪ. ə ˈ b r ær ə /; Omaha–Ponca: Ní Ubthátha khe, pronounced [nĩꜜ ubɫᶞaꜜɫᶞa kʰe], literally "water spread-out horizontal-the" or "The Wide-Spreading Water") is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 568 miles (914 km) long, [2] running through the U.S. states of Wyoming and Nebraska. [3]