Little Blue River (Missouri)

Kansas City metropolitan rivers

Little Blue River is a 45.4-mile-long (73.1 km)[1] stream in Jackson County, Missouri, United States, that gave its name to the Battle of Little Blue River during the American Civil War. It rises in the southern Jackson County town of Grandview and empties into the Missouri River just west of the town of Sibley. The Little Blue was named for its smaller size relative to nearby Blue River.[2]

At Lake City, Missouri, the river has a mean annual discharge of 167 cubic feet per second.[3]

Longview Lake is a 930-acre (3.8 km2) freshwater reservoir that was created by damming the river.

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed May 31, 2011
  2. ^ "Jackson County Place Names, 1928–1945 (archived)". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on 24 June 2016. Retrieved 16 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "USGS Surface Water data for Missouri: USGS Surface-Water Annual Statistics".